VIENNA TABLE CABINET. WOOD, ENAMEL. 19TH CENTURY.

Viennese tabletop jewelry box or chest. Wood, enamels, bronze. Austria, second half of the 19th century. Requires restoration. Rectangular table or desk cabinet with the four protruding rectangle corners and a finial that protrudes from an openwork railing, forming an architectural composition and ending in a gilded bronze child figure. The four corners of the furniture present semicircular arches with twisted columns of gilded bronze, sheltering bronze female figures in a dancing attitude, with other children's figures on top. In addition to a series of gilded bronze applications spread throughout the furniture, there are a series of hand-painted enamel plates with mythological scenes in pastel tones. Two doors on the front give access to three interior drawers, with handles and decorations of enamel plates with landscapes. Note that the doors are also decorated with scenes inside. This type of cabinet was highly appreciated in courtly environments, being used in the female private sphere to store jewelry or other valuable objects, with the addition of being a highly decorative piece of furniture. The shape, materials (ebony or ebonized wood, bronze...) and the enamel plates follow the style of the 19th century Viennese school, specialized in this type of cabinets (the most important were made in Vienna), in which it is not It is common to present the corners with architectural shelters as can be seen in this example (there are records of two other examples in private collections, one with smooth bronze columns and the other presents them in porcelain and torsos, both dated around 1880).

· Size: 47x44x56 cms.