VIENNA TABLE CABINET. WOOD, ENAMEL. 19TH CENTURY.
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Reference: ZE433
Viennese table jewellery box or chest. Wood, enamels, bronze. Austria, second half of the 19th century. Requires restoration. Rectangular table or desk cabinet with four rectangular protruding corners and a finial that projects from an openwork railing, forming an architectural composition and ending in a gilt bronze child figure. The four corners of the piece of furniture have semicircular arches with twisted gilt bronze columns, sheltering bronze female figures in a dancing attitude, with other children on top. In addition to a series of gilt bronze applications spread throughout the piece of furniture, there is a series of hand-painted enamel plaques with mythological scenes in pastel tones. Two doors on the front give access to three interior drawers, with handles and enamel plaque decorations with landscapes. Note that the doors are also decorated with scenes inside. This type of cabinet was highly appreciated in courtly circles, being used in the private sphere of women to store jewellery or other valuable objects, with the added bonus of being a very decorative piece of furniture. The shape, materials (ebony or ebonised wood, bronze...) and enamel plates follow the style of the 19th century Viennese school, specialised in this type of cabinet (the most important were made in Vienna), in which it is not usual to present the corners with architectural shelters as can be seen in this example (there are two other examples in private collections, one with smooth bronze columns and the other with porcelain and twisted columns, both dated around 1880).
· Size: 47x44x56 cms.
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