Live Auction 2811European Noble and Private Collections
A MATCHED SUITE OF AUSTRIAN BIEDERMEIER WALNUT, FIGURED-WALNUT AND PEN-ENGRAVED FRUITWOOD SEAT FURNITURE
Lot 624 THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR (LOTS 624-627)

A MATCHED SUITE OF AUSTRIAN BIEDERMEIER WALNUT, FIGURED-WALNUT AND PEN-ENGRAVED FRUITWOOD SEAT FURNITURE

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed25 June 2008

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EUR 1,500

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A MATCHED SUITE OF AUSTRIAN BIEDERMEIER WALNUT, FIGURED-WALNUT AND PEN-ENGRAVED FRUITWOOD SEAT FURNITURE
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Comprising a sofa, two armchairs and two side chairs, each with tablet top-rail centred by a fruitwood roundel above a pierced spindle filled rectangular back and padded seat covered in striped cotton; and a conforming circular centre table
The sofa 135 cm. wide; The table 80 cm. high x 80 cm. diam. (6)

Specialist note

A chair of this basic model, i.e. with pierced rectangular spindle filled back is illustrated in Vienne 1815-1848. Un nouvel art de vivre à l'époque Biedermeier Paris, 1990, p. 80. The present set with its caracteristic simulated marquetry and figured-walnut stem from the later Biedermeier period.