A round gueridon with porcelain panels - image-1
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Lot 239 Dα

A round gueridon with porcelain panels

Auction 1169 - overview Berlin
24.04.2021, 11:00 - Prussian Sale
Estimate: 12.000 € - 15.000 €
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A round gueridon with porcelain panels

Pompeii style decorative table made from solid walnut and walnut veneer on softwood with porcelain panels. Fluted central shaft on tripod supports terminating in zoomorphic feet, the top inset with 12 porcelain panels painted with illustrations of climbing plants surrounding a central panel with a Southern Italian genre motif. Scratches to the central panel. H 75.5, D 83.5 cm.
1830s, the form of the table after a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

Literature

Similar tables published in cat. K.F. Schinkel Möbel und Interieur, Munich-Berlin 2002, illus. 1 ff. With an interesting article by Achim Stiegel about "Die Differenzierung der Autorschaft. Zum Verhältnis von Entwurf und Ausführung". The example in the first illustration, a table made in Berlin for Glienicke Palace after a design by Schinkel, represented a prototype upon which all other designs of this type were based. Schinkel's original design was inspired by the archaeological excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum.