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Georg Haupt (1741 - 1784), master in 1770
This secrétaire à abattant is related to a group of secrétaires made between 1778 and 1782. All employ the same basic design of a long frieze drawer with recessed panel above a fall front with central motif and above a breakfront single or double drawer. They all have canted angles headed by mounts above simulated panels, on angled square tapering legs headed by paterae. It is interesting to note that Haupt adopted a fully neo-classical vocabulary for this shape while retaining certain Rococo shapes, such as cabriole legs, for his commodes.
The first secrétaires of this model by Haupt, conceived as a pair and inlaid with facing male and female medallions were supplied to Gustaf III in 1778 and are today at Tullgarns Slott (see: M. Lagerquist, op. cit., pp. 94, cat. 10). In contrast to the present example, those secrétaires are headed by a flowerhead-filled guilloche-band on the frieze drawer. The guilloche-band mount which adorns many of Haupt's pieces was as frequently employed as the Vitruvian-scroll of this lot. The addition of small lotus-buds to the Vitruvian-scroll is, however, less frequent and could possibly have been reserved for more important works. The entrelac on the legs is shared with those supplied for the King, as well as on a secrétaire made in 1779 (see: M. Lagerquist, op. cit., p. 142, cat. 27). It is interesting to note that the central panel on the fall-front of this lot is also closely related to the same three pieces, although the Royal pair is more elaborately decorated. In all four examples the central medallion is flanked by flowerhead-filled trellis panels, which give the secrétaires a rich texture. The other secrétaires in Haupt's oeuvre are not so richly inlaid dependant for effect upon the profile-head medallion alone.
The iconography for the medallion seems to derive from Delafosse's designs, which were published in 1768 in Recueil de Meubles. The design for the head itself is very closely related to Delafosse's sketches. It is conceivable that it was through Jean Eric Rehn that Haupt received the inspiration for the designs, although it would seem more probable that Haupt himself owned a copy of the publication, as a lot of his designs can be traced back to it.
The unusually fine chasing of the mounts and the richness of marquetry are among the most elaborate in his oeuvre, and it is likely that the piece was executed for one of Haupt's more important patrons
From 1882 to 1889 Baron Gustaf Tamm was on the Board of Directors of Iggesunds and Österby bruk, companies involved in iron and wood processing, and was Governor of Stockholm from 1888 to 1909
This secrétaire à abattant is related to a group of secrétaires made between 1778 and 1782. All employ the same basic design of a long frieze drawer with recessed panel above a fall front with central motif and above a breakfront single or double drawer. They all have canted angles headed by mounts above simulated panels, on angled square tapering legs headed by paterae. It is interesting to note that Haupt adopted a fully neo-classical vocabulary for this shape while retaining certain Rococo shapes, such as cabriole legs, for his commodes.
The first secrétaires of this model by Haupt, conceived as a pair and inlaid with facing male and female medallions were supplied to Gustaf III in 1778 and are today at Tullgarns Slott (see: M. Lagerquist, op. cit., pp. 94, cat. 10). In contrast to the present example, those secrétaires are headed by a flowerhead-filled guilloche-band on the frieze drawer. The guilloche-band mount which adorns many of Haupt's pieces was as frequently employed as the Vitruvian-scroll of this lot. The addition of small lotus-buds to the Vitruvian-scroll is, however, less frequent and could possibly have been reserved for more important works. The entrelac on the legs is shared with those supplied for the King, as well as on a secrétaire made in 1779 (see: M. Lagerquist, op. cit., p. 142, cat. 27). It is interesting to note that the central panel on the fall-front of this lot is also closely related to the same three pieces, although the Royal pair is more elaborately decorated. In all four examples the central medallion is flanked by flowerhead-filled trellis panels, which give the secrétaires a rich texture. The other secrétaires in Haupt's oeuvre are not so richly inlaid dependant for effect upon the profile-head medallion alone.
The iconography for the medallion seems to derive from Delafosse's designs, which were published in 1768 in Recueil de Meubles. The design for the head itself is very closely related to Delafosse's sketches. It is conceivable that it was through Jean Eric Rehn that Haupt received the inspiration for the designs, although it would seem more probable that Haupt himself owned a copy of the publication, as a lot of his designs can be traced back to it.
The unusually fine chasing of the mounts and the richness of marquetry are among the most elaborate in his oeuvre, and it is likely that the piece was executed for one of Haupt's more important patrons
From 1882 to 1889 Baron Gustaf Tamm was on the Board of Directors of Iggesunds and Österby bruk, companies involved in iron and wood processing, and was Governor of Stockholm from 1888 to 1909