A rare Dutch lacquer table secretaire by Adrianus Apol (1780-Breda-1862)
€ 17500
A rare Dutch lacquer table secretaire by Adrianus Apol (1780-Breda-1862)
The hinged fallfront enclosing an interior with pigeonholes and drawers, and secret drawers, is decorated with a landscape of figures and pagodes within a cartouche surrounded by sprays of flowers, which rests on two pull out supports. The base with one drawer decorated with flowers, on clawfeet.
Adrianus Apol, a "peinturier" painter of lacquer and merchant from Breda (in the south of the Netherlanlds), decorated this table-secretaire in the style of Chinese and Japanese lacquerwork. He imitated not only the lacquer work, but also the style of painting and the marquetery with mother-of-pearl.
- Price
- € 17500
- Period
- 1849
- Material
- Lacquer
- Signature
- Signed and dated l.r. 'A.G. Apol 1849'
- Dimensions
- 57 x 51.5 x 34 cm
- Reference
- 0077
