A German fruitwood inlaid mahogany sofa, Berlin, after the model by Schinkel circa 1830

with a rectangular shaped padded back, the top-rail carved with scrolls terminating in a roundel, above a rectangular padded seat, the curved sides each with a removeable top enclosing a recess above reeding on sabre legs carved with roundels, the whole inlaid with fruitwood stringing, the reverse with a paper label in ink

Comparative Literature:
Johannes Sievers, Karl Friedrich Schinkel Lebenswerk, Berlin, 1950, cat. num. 176.
E. A. Seemann, Preußische Königsschlösser in Berlin und Potsdam, Leipzig, 1992, p. 249.

A similar example can be found in the Schloss Charlottenburg Schinkelpavillon in Berlin, op. cit. p. 249.