Rococo style secretary

construction - oak, veneer - walnut, ribbons - plum; 210 x 105 x 60 cm.
Germany, Lower Saxony, circa mid-18th century.
Three-piece with straight sides, with a two-winged settee, with a secreter section with a hinged lid, supported on a three-drawer chest with console legs, veneered in walnut, decorated with inlaid ribbons. The settee with a high-arched corrugated pediment, torn and filled with a crotch in the center, in the form of the so-called swan's neck; closed with a two-leaf, wave-shaped door, glazed with corrugated muntins. The secreter part closed with a diagonally arranged, wave-shaped and hinged flap, shelved on slats extending from the drawer. The chest of drawers with a wavy front with dodging, supported on five legs, three in front and two in back. The faces of the lid and drawers veneered with patterned veneer, with a central rectangular field, around which an inlaid ribbon and a wide bordered border. Decorative hardware in thick brass plate, with wavy shapes. Steel locks, exemplary-levered, single-bolt. The interior of the settee is painted red, with three shelves and three drawers under the lower shelf. In the interior
Secreter with 8 drawers (one of them two-compartment), arranged around a niche, under which a sliding panel, with shallow storage.
Extended secreter cabinet for writing and storage of books, documents and writing utensils. Of a form and decoration typical of furniture made in Lower Saxony at the Brunswick furniture center, circa mid-18th century.