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Lot 1221 D‡α

A sumptuously inlaid side table

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 20.000 € - 30.000 €
Result: 18.750 € (incl. premium)
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A sumptuously inlaid side table

Brass, tinted tortoiseshell, copper, ivory and palisander inlays on softwood corpus and solid cedarwood. Rhomboid base with pronounced corners supporting a shaft of octagonal section and an octagonal top with four drawers in the apron. All faces decorated with fine marquetry depicting tendrils, putti, and flowers. The top with columns dividing fields showing female allegories and vases of flowers. The edge of the top engraved "Gbr. Barth".
Würzburg, manufactory of Adam and Stephan Barth, mid-19th C.

The brothers Adam and Stephan Barth also participated in the exhibition in the Deutscher Zollverein in Berlin in 1844. There they showed a "ladies work and toilette table in modern Renaissance style, the richly applied and beautiful marquetries of which merit special mention." (Himmelheber, p. 148)

Literature

For more on Barth, see: Kreisel/Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, vol. 3, Munich 1973, p. 148, 163, illus. 682, for a writing desk from 1851 in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg which was shown at the Great Exhibition in London.