230 GERMAN SECRETAIRES
398- Secretaire
Berlin, circa 1798-1799
By Johann Andreas Beo; clock movement
by Christian Mollinger
Pine and oak veneered with mahogany,
satinwood, bloodwood, ebony, and king-
wood; white marble; bronze; enameled
metal; gilt-bronze mounts
Clock face painted Mollinger a Berlin.
Height: 8 ft. (243.8 cm); Width: 3 ft. 8 in.
(111.8 cm); Depth: 2 ft. (60.9 cm)
Accession number 84 .DA.87
PROVENANCE
Purchased by Frederick William III, King
of Prussia (1770-1840), for Schloss Pots
dam, circa 1802; private collection, Berlin;
Ragaller, Berlin; (sold, Weinm٧ller, Munich,
May 2-5,1956, lot mi); (sold, Weinm٧ller
[Neumeister], Munich, October 23-24,
1974, lot 861); private collection, Munich;
[Juan Pσrtela, New York].BIBLIOGRAPHY
Claudia Freytag, Bruckmanns Mφbel-Lexikon
(Munich, circa 1978), illus. p. 298; Michael
St٧rmer, Handwerk und hφfische Kultur
Europδische Mφbelkunst in Munich (Munich,
1982), p. 193, pi. 102; Dietrich Fabian, Die
Entwicklung der Roentgen-Schreibmφbel
(Bad Neustadt, 1982), pp. 53-55, figs. 77d-g;
Heinrich Kriesel, Die Kunst des deutschen
Mφbels, vol. 3 (Munich, 1983), illus. p. 264;
Dietrich Fabian, Kinzing und Roentgen
Uhren aus Neuwied (fiza Neustadt, 1984),
p. 147; Wilson, "Acquisitions 1984," no. 5,
pp. 83-88, illus; "Acquisitions/1984,"
GettyMusJ Y*, (1985), no. 68, p. 184, illus.;
Dietrich Fabian, Roentgenmφbel aus Neuwied
(Bad Neustadt, 1986), p. 312, illus. p. 305,
figs. 72-4-727.TABLES- Console Table
Munich, circa 1730
Design attributed to Joseph Effner; carving
attributed to Johann Adam Pichler
Limewood; Tegernsee marble top
Height: 2 ft. 9% in. (86.5 cm); Width:
5 ft. 1/2 in. (156 cm); Depth: 2 ft. ιΥ 4 in.
(64 cm)
Accession number 88.DA.88
PROVENANCE
(?) Karl Albrecht (Charles VII, 1697-1745),
Elector of Bavaria, 1726, and Holy Roman
Emperor, 1742, in the Kaisersaal at Kloster
Ettal; Paris (art market or private collection),
1960s; private collection, Germany (sold,
Nouveau Drouot, Paris, December 5,1980,
lot 99); [Bernheimer Fine Arts, Ltd.,
London, 1988].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1988," GettyMusJ YJ (1989),
no. 82, p. 145, illus.