A South German Biedermeier brass-mounted mahogany, ebonised, polychrome and penwork-decorated centre table
A South German Biedermeier brass-mounted mahogany, ebonised, polychrome and penwork-decorated centre table

POSSIBLY MUNICH

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A South German Biedermeier brass-mounted mahogany, ebonised, polychrome and penwork-decorated centre table
Possibly Munich
The circular top inlaid with ebony lines and mulberry borders, centred by a roundel decorated with fruit, the spreading moulded hexagonal shaft decorated with mulberry borders and pierced quatrefoil bands, the spreading ebonised foot on iron castors, restorations
76cm. high and 168cm. diam.
拍場告示
Please note that the base and top are possibly associated.

拍品專文

This large centre table, which balanced the chandelier in the neo-classical Rittersaal at Schloss Niederstotzingen, rests on an exaggerated hexagonal foot mounted with Gothick brass mounts and relates to a similar table, executed in Munich around 1830, which belonged to Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria (1795-1875). (H. Kreisel G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, Vol. III, p. 118 and fig. 488)
The black-painted decoration seems to have been a speciality of Munich and was developed and perfected by Johann Georg Hiltl (1771-1845) around 1810, who exhibited his furniture at the Münchner Austellungen in 1818 and 1819. He enjoyed considerable acclaim for his work and was described as der berühmte Möbelfabrikant in the Journal des Luxus und der Moden of 1810. (G. Himmelheber, Biedermeiermöbel, Munich, 1987, p. 49)

See illustration