A GERMAN IVORY AND PEWTER-INLAID EBONY, WALNUT AND MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE, inlaid in premier and contrepartie with auricular rectangular top inlaid with a central scrolling foliate arabesque panel centred by a sphinx altar and espagnolette masks with herms, putti and insects, the crossbanded outer border with further scrolled foliate arabesque border, above a similarly-inlaid frieze and on spirally-twisted legs joined by an X-shaped stretcher, the top 17th Century, restorations, the top and base associated inscribed WB10 with paper label pest

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A GERMAN IVORY AND PEWTER-INLAID EBONY, WALNUT AND MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE, inlaid in premier and contrepartie with auricular rectangular top inlaid with a central scrolling foliate arabesque panel centred by a sphinx altar and espagnolette masks with herms, putti and insects, the crossbanded outer border with further scrolled foliate arabesque border, above a similarly-inlaid frieze and on spirally-twisted legs joined by an X-shaped stretcher, the top 17th Century, restorations, the top and base associated inscribed WB10 with paper label pest
54in. (137.5cm.) wide; 31½in. (50cm.) high; 36¼in. (92cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied to the Brunswick family at Korompa, Slovenia.
Thence by descent in the female line to Gabriel Chotek, who married Franz Schonborn Wolfsthall, the house being renamed after World War I Dolna Krupa, Hungary. The table remained at Dolna Krupa until the 1930's, when it was moved to Vienna, and then, in 1947 to London.

Lot Essay

A related room, panelled with pewter and ivory inlay and commissioned by the Brunswick family, remains at Wolfenbütel Museum. Dolna Krupa, commissioned by Josef Brunswick in the late 18th Century, is now open as a Beethoven Museum.

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