Lot No. 320


Museum quality Viennese Empire table,


Museum quality Viennese Empire table, - Works of Art (Furniture, Sculpture)

Workshop of Josef Danhauser (Vienna 1780–1829) circa 1810/15. Made in mahogany, the lower part of the top with crossbanded veneering in cherry, set on a three-sided base with verde antico mouldings and gold painted parnassus grass ornament, set over columns supported by gold-painted sphinxes with the so called “vergoldeten Holzbronzen” (gilt wooden bronzes) (shaped moulded wood form similar to papier mache on a cellulose base) typical of Danhauser, the top painted and decorated with boxwood intarsia. H: 80 cm, D: 110 cm. In good restored condition with replacements. (PZ)

See.: Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien Dependance “Geymüller Schlößchen Inv. No.265” A comparable piece in black at the Polish National Museum in Warsaw. Dorotheum auction 21 April 2010, Lot. 712.

Lit.: Renate Möller, Empire und Miedermeiermöbel, Deutscher Kunstverlag 2004

Footnote: The basic idea was taken by Danhauser from drawings by Percier et Fontaine Paris 1804 (Recueil de décorations intérieures)

Specialist: Ulrich Prinz Ulrich Prinz
+43-664-1843716

ulrich.prinz@dorotheum.at

09.04.2014 - 15:00

Realized price: **
EUR 27,580.-
Estimate:
EUR 30,000.- to EUR 40,000.-

Museum quality Viennese Empire table,


Workshop of Josef Danhauser (Vienna 1780–1829) circa 1810/15. Made in mahogany, the lower part of the top with crossbanded veneering in cherry, set on a three-sided base with verde antico mouldings and gold painted parnassus grass ornament, set over columns supported by gold-painted sphinxes with the so called “vergoldeten Holzbronzen” (gilt wooden bronzes) (shaped moulded wood form similar to papier mache on a cellulose base) typical of Danhauser, the top painted and decorated with boxwood intarsia. H: 80 cm, D: 110 cm. In good restored condition with replacements. (PZ)

See.: Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien Dependance “Geymüller Schlößchen Inv. No.265” A comparable piece in black at the Polish National Museum in Warsaw. Dorotheum auction 21 April 2010, Lot. 712.

Lit.: Renate Möller, Empire und Miedermeiermöbel, Deutscher Kunstverlag 2004

Footnote: The basic idea was taken by Danhauser from drawings by Percier et Fontaine Paris 1804 (Recueil de décorations intérieures)

Specialist: Ulrich Prinz Ulrich Prinz
+43-664-1843716

ulrich.prinz@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Works of Art (Furniture, Sculpture)
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 09.04.2014 - 15:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 29.03. - 09.04.2014


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