A Vienna Biedermeier mahogany table - image-1

Lot 435 Dα

A Vienna Biedermeier mahogany table

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
17.11.2022, 14:30 - Decorative Arts - Sculpture Bronze Furniture Textiles
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €

A Vienna Biedermeier mahogany table

Solid mahogany and veneer, bronzed and gilded wood on softwood support. Oval top with one drawer on serpentine supports with Egyptian style herms and paw feet. Older restorations to the edges of the top, minor warping in the veneer. H 76, W 66, D 49 cm.
Around 1800 / early 19th C.

Literature

Cf. Schmitz, Deutsche Möbel des Klassizismus, Stuttgart 1923, p. 171, an identical table formerly at the Residenzschloss Stuttgart.
Cf. a similarly shaped table in Pressler/Döbner/Eller, Biedermeier Möbel, Munich 2001, illus. 342.