a South German figured walnut, burr-elm and marquetry centre table

CIRCA 1840

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a South German figured walnut, burr-elm and marquetry centre table
Circa 1840
Crossbanded overall, the canted rectangular top with faceted border, centred by a quarter-veneered panel, flanked to either side by a fan- motif with scrolling foliage in the corners, above a frieze drawer and a simulated drawer, and a simulated drawer and a frieze drawer to the reverse, on square spreading supports, inlaid with scrolling foliage and terminating in a fan-motif, joined by a baluster stretcher, on rectangular base supports and moulded bases
82cm. high x 136cm. wide x 64cm. deep

Lot Essay

This centre table is conceived in the Gothick antiquarian manner of the 1840s, and relates to designs for similar trestle-supported tables by the celebrated Viennese cabinet-maker Josef Danhauser (1780-1829), whose Fabrik, executed furniture after his designs. A related table, of similar form, in Schloss Heiligenkreuz near Vienna, is illustrated in H. Kreisel/G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, Vol. III, fig. 367. The intricate scrolling marquetry decoration seems to be inspired by earlier pieces at Schloss Niederstotzingen, which were probably inherited from the Counts of Stein, such as a Swiss centre table (Lot 314), with similarly inlaid borders.

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