BIEDERMEIER SIDE TABLES ST368
BIEDERMEIER SIDE TABLES ST368

Unequalled gueridon in palisander on red pine with gold varnishing depicting scrolling foliage, vases, leaves, palmettes and swans. Fluted giltwood pedestal over acanthus leaves ending in a stylized palm-shaped head under the table-top. Weimar Central Germany, circa 1835/40.
27 1/2" h, 31" diameter.
Reference: 2 servers with corresponding gold varnishing decorations from Weimar for the Weimar residence of Grand Duke Carl August of Saxonia-Weimar (probably following a drawing by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who founded 1776 the drawing school in Weimar) have been sold at the ARS ANTIQUE FAIR 1992 in Frankfurt and were illustrated at A 31 in the catalog.



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