SCHREIB - KOMMODE RETOUR D'EGYPTE Austrian Empire, City of Vienna (Around the Congress Period 1814 - 1815) Walnut, briar, ebonized and gilded leaf details, cm. 89 x 140 x 70 Schreib-Kommode, or chest of drawers, made during the years of the Congress of Vienna. For the arts, this particular political phase of transition marked an oment of strong contamination between what was still linked to the Empire style and the Napoleonic age and to the new Biedermeier style still being defined. Thus in this comfortable ebonized pilasters tapered downwards with heads and feet in gilded wood with leaf, they take inspiration from the Egyptian sarcophagi according to the gu