A SWEDISH GILTWOOD CENTRE TABLE

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

细节

A SWEDISH GILTWOOD CENTRE TABLE
Early 18th Century
The rectangular later yellow scagliola top above a pierced frieze of scrolling and fruiting foliage on legs with putti issuing from acanthus, joined by an x-frame stretcher halved with scrolling and fruiting foliage centered by an associated turned and leaf wrapped urn finial, on claw-and-ball feet, regilt with traces of earlier silvering, the underside of the stretcher with inscription '3B58', possibly altered, the carved acanthus at the head of the legs possibly associated
35¼ in. (89.5 cm.) high; 41¾ in. (106 cm.) wide; 29 in. (73.5 cm.) deep

拍品专文

This table-frame, displaying a krater-vase on its stretcher tray, is richly-fretted with vine-entwined Roman acanthus that is cushion-supported by youthful palm-bearing caryatids. These emerge from acanthus-wrapped herms terminating in eagle claws, and recall Jupiter's cup-bearer Ganymede. It is desinged in the Louis XIV manner and relates to pier-set patterns for tables and 'gueridon' stands issued in Daniel Marot's (1661-1752) nouveaux Livre d'Ornements.

It relates to the oeuvre of Burchardt Precht, the leading Stockholm cabinet-maker and sculptor, who hailed from Bremen and went to Sweden in 1674, probably at the invitation of Friedrich I. he worked at both the Stockholm and Drottningholm palaces under the architect Tessin the Younger. A table with similar frieze decoration made about 1700 for Queen Hedwig Eleonora, now at Gripsholm, is illustrated in B. Vahlne, Möbelhistoria Pa Historia, Stockholm, 1986, p. 61. Other similar tables are illustrated in S. Wallin, Nordiska Museets Möbler fran Svensaka Herremanschem, Lund, 1979, pp. 130-134