A pair of Viennese Empire gilt-bronze and brass mounted sycamore and ash burr centre tables, circa 1815-20
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Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
oval, the frieze with lozenges inlaid with brass and ebonized wood fillets, resting on four legs joined by an undertier applied with gilt-bronze leafy scrolls
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Height 31 ½ in, width 31 ¾, depth 24 ¾ in ; Haut. 80 cm, larg. 81 cm, prof. 63 cm
Pelham Paris, 14 July 2015
These types of side tables, highly fashionable in the first half of the 19th century, highlight the creativity of Viennese cabinetmakers in purifying the neoclassical style and creating a distinctive new vocabulary. Both decorative and functional, their design is sober and offers a coherent use of curves and lines combined with a vibrant veneer of Hungarian ash contrasting with a distinctive chevron-pattern frieze.
Similar examples are illustrated in H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, vol III, fig. 393 from Schloss Wiesentheid and another in Renate Möller, Empire- und Biedermeier- möbel, 2004, p.125, fig. 166.
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