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A South-German 'Umdruck'-decorated and painted cherrywood and walnut demi-lune console table
Lot 384

A South-German 'Umdruck'-decorated and painted cherrywood and walnut demi-lune console table

BY JOHANN GEORG HILTL (1771-1845), MÜNCHEN, CIRCA 1825

Closed13 December 2012

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A South-German 'Umdruck'-decorated and painted cherrywood and walnut demi-lune console table
By Johann Georg Hiltl (1771-1845), München, circa 1825
The demi-lune hinged top decorated with trompe l'oeil prints, drawings and music sheets, signed Georg Hiltl Meublesfabrik.., above a palmette-decorated frieze, centred by lion masks, on turned spreading legs
82 cm. high x 144 cm. wide x 65 cm. deep

Specialist note

Johann Georg Hiltl (1771-1845) was probably the first German cabinet-maker to employ this black-printed ('Umdruck') and painted decoration on furniture, a technique previously used for the decoration of ceramics. As a result, Hiltl enjoyed considerable acclaim for his work and was described as 'der berühmte Möbelfabrikant' in the Journal des Luxus und der Moden after supplying and obelisk on the occasion of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria in 1810. (G. Himmelheber, Biedermeiermöbel, Munich, 1987, p. 49.) Two comparable tables are shown in the exhibition of the Münchner Stadtmuseum, see H. Ottomeyer, Zopf- und Biedermeiermöbel, München 1991, pp. 180-181.