Wilhelm Schneider - Spiegel und Konsole eines Salons (Mirror and Console of a Parlor) - image-1
Wilhelm Schneider - Spiegel und Konsole eines Salons (Mirror and Console of a Parlor) - image-2
Wilhelm Schneider - Spiegel und Konsole eines Salons (Mirror and Console of a Parlor) - image-1Wilhelm Schneider - Spiegel und Konsole eines Salons (Mirror and Console of a Parlor) - image-2

Lot 1 Dα

Wilhelm Schneider - Spiegel und Konsole eines Salons (Mirror and Console of a Parlor)

Auction 1012 - overview Cologne
24.05.2013, 00:00 - Photography
Estimate: 1.200 €
Result: 5.124 € (incl. premium)

Stereo daguerreotype hand-tinted. Visible mat opening 7.1 x 5 cm each (case size 10.1 x 12.1 x 1.5 cm). Mounted under a gilt brass mat, thereon embossed ‘STEREOSCOP VON T. SCHNEIDER UND SOEHNE’ below the images, in original leather case with built-in viewer. – The daguerreotype with slight oxidation along mat opening, the case with slight traces of usage.

This daguerreotype was included in the cited exhibition at Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 2008 (cat. 265).

Provenance

Private property, Rhineland, Germany

Literature

Ulrike Laufer (ed.), Gründerzeit. 1848 - 1871. Industrie & Lebensträume zwischen Vormärz und Kaiserreich, exhib.cat. Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, Dresden 2008, ill, p. 255