an amsterdam school mahogany and ebonized table

DESIGNED BY MICHIEL DE KLERK IN 1 15/16, COMMISSIONED BY F.J. ZEEGERS FOR 'T WOONHUYS AND EXECUTED BY 'T WOONHUYS, AMSTERDAM, CIRCA 1917

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an amsterdam school mahogany and ebonized table
Designed by Michiel de Klerk in 1 15/16, commissioned by F.J. Zeegers for 't Woonhuys and executed by 't Woonhuys, Amsterdam, circa 1917
The parquetry veneered swollen rectangular top inlaid at the centre with spade-motifs to form a zig-zag pattern, above a broad apron applied at the long sides and near the corners with four slightly diagonally placed flaring semi-cylindrical ornaments carved at the top with notches issuing flames, the short sides each applied at the base with a carved ornaments of matching design, on two waisted oval section pedestals, each above fifty tapering cylindrical supports set on waisted oval plinth with wavy edge
70cm. high x 114cm. long x 66cm. wide

Lot Essay

The table offered for sale here belongs to the nine-piece drawing-room suite which Michiel de Klerk designed for 't Woonhuys in 1915/1916 and which was probably not executed until 1917. Only some nineteen sets were made. Parts of the suite can be found in various collections such as in the Collections of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Centraal Museum, Utrecht and the Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, Florida

Cf. Architectura, Driebond Nummer, September, 1917, p. 302 (illustrated)
Catalogus 't Woonhuys, circa 1918, for an illustration of the showroom with the nine-piece suite
Wendingen, issue 7, Vol. 1925, p. 8 (illustrated)
L'Art Hollandais ä L'Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs on & Industriels Modernes à Paris, Paris, 1925, p. 67 (illustrated)
Frans van Burkom, Michiel de Klerk, Rotterdam, 1990, p. 24, for an illustration of a design drawing for the table

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