Workshop of the Spindler brothers, Potsdam, around 1765
Chest with three drawers with an all-side slightly cambered body, veneered in mahogany, kingwood, maple and rosewood with remnants of the original coloration, and fittings with remnants of the original fire gilding.
The chest of drawers displays numerous features of the Spindler workshop in the Potsdam period: The top panel, front and sides are masterfully veneered with large floral bouquets in curved cartouches held by bow ties. While the shape of the body and the veneer pattern are still Baroque, the fittings already point to the Louis XVI style.
Johann Friedrich Spindler (1726 - approx. 1799) and his younger brother Heinrich Wilhelm (1738-1788) had fulfilled numerous commissions for furniture and room furnishings for the New Palace and the Hermitage until the death of Margravine Wilhelmine of Bayreuth in 1758. After the death of his favourite sister, Frederick II of Prussia summoned the brothers to Potsdam in 1765. There, after the victorious end of the Seven Years' War, they were to work on the interior design and furnishing of the New Palace.
Height 80 cm, width 114 cm, depth 68 cm










