POTSDAM, MID-18TH CENTURY, LARGELY REDECORATED

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A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT CREAM AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED CENTRE TABLE
POTSDAM, MID-18TH CENTURY, LARGELY REDECORATED
The shaped rectangular top with rounded corners above a shaped frieze centred by a winged rockwork cartouche decorated with flowerheads on cabriole legs headed by foliate clasps, the knees carved with flowerheads and terminating in leaf-wrapped feet
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 36 1/2 in. (93 cm.) wide; 25 1/2 in. (65 cm.) deep

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Sale room notice

The simulated marble top and moulding beneath appear to be of a later date, possibly replacing an original marble top.

Lot Essay

This richly carved centre table, decorated with carved scrolls and flower heads and with inwardly-curving supports, is closely related to the oeuvre of furniture-maker and designer Johann Michael Hoppenhaupt (1709-c.1778-86), and especially to his work executed for Schloss Sanssouci in Potsdam around 1750.
A series of related designs for consoles, canapés and commodes was published by Hoppenhaupt around 1753, which can also be linked to a number of items of furniture in the palaces at Potsdam, some of which he is thought to have executed himself.

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