A GERMAN BIEDERMEIER FRUITWOOD AND EBONIZED COMMODE

CIRCA 1820-30

Details

A GERMAN BIEDERMEIER FRUITWOOD AND EBONIZED COMMODE
Circa 1820-30
The rectangular top above one smaller and two larger drawers, with ebonized shield escutcheons, raised on square, tapering ebonized legs, the legs later, bearing paper label inside top drawer: KGL.SCHLOSS NYMPHENBURG./Lit. E No: 201 and paper label on back: K.SCHLOSS NYMPHENBURG/Capellen-Gartenmeuble-u. Orangerie-Bau./zimmer no: 5/Jnventar no: 9, the back stenciled in black paint 644 and each drawer and back bearing paper label A Merxmüller and each drawer marked in blue chalk Merxmüller Amalienstr. 26/2 München
34in. (86.5cm.) high , 46½in. (118cm.) wide, 25in. (63.5cm.) deep

Provenance

King Max Joseph and Queen Karoline of Bavaria, Nymphenburg Palace
A. Merxmüller, Amalienstrasse 26/2, Munich

Lot Essay

The Grand Duke Max Joseph and his wife Karoline, crowned the first King and Queen of Bavaria in 1806, redecorated Nymphenburg Palace extensively in the Empire and later Biedermeier style. This commode would have been supplied to the Palace during their reign, probably before 1825. While there are no existing inventories that correspond to the two inventory labels on the commode, the first label is from circa 1874 and the second is from circa 1900. See B. Langer, Die Möbel der Schlösser Nymphenburg und Schleissheim, Munich, 2000, pp. 43-46.

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