Details
A PAIR OF AUSTRIAN BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED DOUBLE-FLAP GAMES- AND TEA-TABLES, each with semi-elliptical hinged tops enclosing a writing-surface and a green baize-lined playing surface, with panelled frieze divided by foliate panels, the reverse with central pull-out fifth leg enclosing a drawer flanked by small drawers on canted square tapering legs and foliate caps, early 19th Century, variations in construction and size
one: 45in. (114cm.) wide; 30in. (76cm.) high; 23in. (58.5cm.) deep
the other: 44in. (112cm.) wide; 29½in. (76cm.) 22in. (56cm.) deep (2)
one: 45in. (114cm.) wide; 30in. (76cm.) high; 23in. (58.5cm.) deep
the other: 44in. (112cm.) wide; 29½in. (76cm.) 22in. (56cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Supplied to the Auersperg family for Palais Auersperg, Vienna in the early 19th Century.
Moved to their hunting retreat in the second half of the 19th Century
Moved to their hunting retreat in the second half of the 19th Century
Literature
J. Folnesics, Innenräume und Hausrat der Empire - und Biedermeierzeit in Österreich-Ungarn, Vienna, 1917, p. 6, ill. 37,38.
G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, vol. 3, Munich, 1973, p. 349, ill. 348
G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, vol. 3, Munich, 1973, p. 349, ill. 348