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.
Installation view of Vanitas in Use II at Innenkreis, featuring Triptychs by Et arrangement, Typhon and Echidna Sitting on a Tree (2026) by Indio Möglich and a Neoclassical Marquetry Cherrywood and Walnut Side Table from the late 19th Century. Photo by Robert Damisch.
Installation view, Vanitas in Use II, Innenkreis, featuring Face by Pettersen Hein, Sbaenk in walnut by Anne Jaedicke, Triptychs by Et arrangement, Typhon and Echidna Sitting on a Tree (2026) by Indio Möglich, and a late 19th-century Neoclassical marquetry cherrywood and walnut side table.
Installation view, Vanitas in Use II, Innenkreis, featuring Face by Pettersen Hein, Sbaenk in walnut by Anne Jaedicke, Triptychs by Et arrangement, Typhon and Echidna Sitting on a Tree (2026) by Indio Möglich, and a late 19th-century Neoclassical marquetry cherrywood and walnut side table.
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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.
