A BIEDERMEIER WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE TABLE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A BIEDERMEIER WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE TABLE
Early 19th Century
The canted rectangular top above a birch-lined frieze-drawer, on sabre legs joined by a concave-sided undertier and headed by classical maiden's-heads and on paw feet, with pencil inscription to the underside of the drawer 'No 137', restorations
24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 30¼ in. (77 cm.) high; 17¼ in. (44 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A design for a related table with similar canted top and tapering sabre legs features with other Nähtische (work-tables) in M. Wölfer, Modell- und Musterbuch für Bau- und Möbel- Tischler, Quedlinburg and Leipzig, 1833, pl. 59.
A further related table in the Städtisches Museum in Regensburg is illustrated in G. Himmelheber, Biedermeier Furniture, London, 1974, fig. 46. An oval table made in Vienna, with nearly identical supports joined by a concave-sided rectangular undertier, is illustrated in Prof. R. Haaff, Das Süddeutsche Biedermeier, Westheim Pfalz, 1991, p. 275, cat. 577.

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