A Neoclassical Marquetry Cherrywood and Walnut Side Table, late 19th century. Austro-Hungarian, in polished cherrywood and walnut veneers with precious hardwood marquetry and scorched detailing. Featured in Vanitas In Use II at Innenkreis.
A Neoclassical Marquetry Cherrywood and Walnut Side Table, late 19th century. Austro-Hungarian, in polished cherrywood and walnut veneers with precious hardwood marquetry and scorched detailing. Featured in Vanitas In Use II at Innenkreis.
A Neoclassical Marquetry Cherrywood and Walnut Side Table, late 19th century. Austro-Hungarian, in polished cherrywood and walnut veneers with precious hardwood marquetry and scorched detailing. Featured in Vanitas In Use II at Innenkreis.
A Neoclassical Marquetry Cherrywood and Walnut Side Table, late 19th century. Austro-Hungarian, in polished cherrywood and walnut veneers with precious hardwood marquetry and scorched detailing. Featured in Vanitas In Use II at Innenkreis.
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A Neoclassical Marquetry Cherrywood and Walnut Side Table, Late 19th Century
Polished cherrywood and walnut veneers; inlaid with various precious hardwoods, partially scorched (gebrannte Marketerie)
81 x 99.5 x 70.5 cm
31 7/8 x 39 1/8 x 27 3/4 in
31 7/8 x 39 1/8 x 27 3/4 in
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An elegant late 19th-century side table in the Neoclassical style. The rectangular top features a broad mitered cherrywood border enclosing a rich field of four-way book-matched walnut veneer. This dark wood ground frames a central horizontal marquetry panel depicting a detailed, stylized pastoral landscape. The scene features a prominent farmhouse on the left, a solitary central tree, a winding path or river cutting through rolling hills, and a distant hilltop castle complex on the right. The pictorial depth is achieved through the artful grain alignment of various precious hardwoods and scorched hot-sand shading techniques. The central panel is framed by a delicate geometric wave-and-sawtooth border, while the outer walnut field is enclosed by a contrasting light-and-dark dentil band. The table is fitted with a single frieze drawer and is raised on four elegant, tapered, and fluted square legs.