CIRCA 1820, POSSIBLY MUNICH, WORKSHOP OF JOHANN GEORG HILTL, CIRCA 1820

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A SOUTH GERMAN BIEDERMEIER PEN-ENGRAVED CHERRYWOOD SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
CIRCA 1820, POSSIBLY MUNICH, WORKSHOP OF JOHANN GEORG HILTL, CIRCA 1820
The moulded rectangular cornice decorated with acanthus above a hinged fallfront enclosing a fitted interior with ten pen-engraved drawers and a central open compartment depicting a Bavarian landscape, flanked by simulated turned columns, above a pair of doors, on later bun feet
142 cm. high x 106 cm. wide x 44 cm. deep

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Lot Essay

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. A pair of cupboards, attributed to Hiltl in the collections of the princes of Thurn and Taxis, are decorated with the same simulated egg-and-dart moulding that can be found on this secretaire. (G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels,vol. III, Munich, 1973, pl. 383).

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