A SWEDISH GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE

Burchardt Precht was the leading Stockholm sculptor and cabinetmaker of the late 17th century. Originally from Bremen, Precht went to Sweden in 1674, probably at the invitation of Friedrich I. He worked at both the Stockholm and Drottningholm palaces under the architect Count Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. A table with similar frieze decoration made circa 1700 for Queen Hedvig Eleonora, now at Gripsholm, is illustrated in B. Vahlne, Möbelhistoria Pa Gripsholm, Stockholm, 1986, p. 61. Other similar tables, and a bed with comparable carved rail frieze and acanthus-clasped milled supports, are illustrated in S. Wallin, Nordiska museets möbler fran svensaka herremanshem, Stockholm, 1979, vol. I, pp. 130-134.