VIENNA TABLE CABINET. WOOD, ENAMEL. 19TH CENTURY.
Antiques - Furniture
Reference: ZE433
Viennese tabletop jewelry box or chest. Wood, enamels, bronze. Austria, second half of the 19th century. It requires restoration. A rectangular cabinet or desk with four projecting rectangular corners and a projecting finial featuring an openwork railing, forming an architectural composition and culminating in a gilt bronze child figure. The four corners of the cabinet feature semicircular arches supported by twisted gilt bronze columns, sheltering bronze female figures in dancing poses, with other children above them. In addition to a series of gilt bronze mounts distributed throughout the cabinet, there are several hand-painted enamel plaques depicting mythological scenes in pastel shades. Two doors on the front provide access to three interior drawers with handles and enamel plaque decorations featuring landscapes. Note that the doors are also decorated with scenes on the inside. These types of cabinets were highly valued in courtly settings and were also used in women's private homes to store jewelry or other valuables, with the added benefit of being highly decorative pieces of furniture. The form, materials (ebony or ebonized wood, bronze, etc.), and enamel plaques follow the style of the 19th-century Viennese school, which specialized in this type of cabinet (the most important examples were made in Vienna). In this style, it is unusual to feature corners with architectural moldings, as can be seen in this example (two other examples are known in private collections, one with smooth bronze columns and the other with porcelain and twisted columns, both dating from around 1880).
· Size: 47x44x56 cms.
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