A SET OF SEVENTEEN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY AND STAINED DINING-CHAIRS, each with pierced waisted rectangular back above a slightly-arched toprail with central pierced spindle-filled panel flanked by panels inlaid with flowerheads, with beaded pierced wheel-shaped splat centred by bird standing on a quiver of arrows, the padded drop-in spring seat covered in various materials above a panelled frieze centred by a mount of griffins flanking an urn, on brass-bound square tapering legs headed by foliate panel and with foliate caps, overall minor repairs and losses, repairs to tops of legs, seven seats replaced (17)

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Provenance

Supplied to the Auersperg family for Palais Auersperg, Vienna in the early 19th Century.

Moved to their hunting retreat in the second half of the 19th Century

Literature

J. Folnesics, Innenräume und Hausrat der Empire - und Biedermeierzeit in Österreich-Ungarn, Vienna, 1917, p. 6, ill. 37,38,39,42,45.

G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, vol. 3, Munich, 1973, p. 349, ill. 348

Lot Essay

This set of chairs is closely related to the chair on the right-hand-side of the second row on Gottfried August Pohle's design sheet of 1806, now in the Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Drawings Collection XVIII d/VIII51. The model was frequently produced with minor variants. It is, however, not known if G.A. Pohle was a furniture maker or only a designer,

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