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A PAIR OF SWEDISH PARCEL-GILT AND BRONZED CONSOLE TABLES
Lot 32

A PAIR OF SWEDISH PARCEL-GILT AND BRONZED CONSOLE TABLES

ATTRIBUTED TO JONAS FRISKS, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed26 September 2018

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A PAIR OF SWEDISH PARCEL-GILT AND BRONZED CONSOLE TABLES
ATTRIBUTED TO JONAS FRISKS, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With rectangular porphyry (blyberg) tops, above a frieze with stylized rosettes and husks on engaged columnar standard supports and solid plinths
33 in. (83.8 cm.) high, 35 ½ in. (90.2 cm.) wide, 16 in. (40.6 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 July 2005, lot 309.

Specialist note

An almost identical Swedish Empire console table and matching mirror bearing the label of Jonas Frisks (1787-1849) are illustrated in T. Sylvén & E. Welander-Berggren, Speglar: Spegelmakare & Fabrikörer I Sverige, Stockholm, 2000, p.129.
Frisks, who was granted the right to produce mirrors from the Stockholm kommerskollegium in 1805, ran a successful workshop employing between 9 and 14 craftsmen, first located at the Stortorget (1806-10), then at the Storkyrkobrinken (1810-14) and finally at the Riddarhustorget (1814-25).