A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE
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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE

LATE 18TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF DAVID ROENTGEN

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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE
LATE 18TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF DAVID ROENTGEN
The rectangular top sliding to reveal a frieze fitted with a hinged mirror above a secret compartment, flanked by two drawers with loop handles and a foldable writing slide, above a further cedar-lined drawer with two swivelling inktrays, on square tapering legs headed by fluted pilasters and roundels, with ormolu-capped feet, the top probably re-veneered, handles and roundels replaced
30 3/4 in. (78 cm.) high; 36 3/4 in. (93.5 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Fabian, Roentgen Möbel aus Neuwied, 1986, pp. 68-72, figs. 104-108 and 117-120.
J.M. Greber, Abraham und David Roentgen: Möbel für Europa, Starnberg, 1980, ills. 585-594.

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With its elaborate mechanism designed to accommodate a whole spectrum of domestic activities, this sophisticated little table, veneered in figured mahogany, the late 18th century production of the Roentgen workshops.
Developed in the late 1780s by David Roentgen (1743-1807), who took control of his father Abraham's (1711-1793) workshop in 1772, the prototype of this can be found in the collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in Coburg, while other examples have been recorded in Schloss Ludwigsburg, Swabia, and the collections of the Duchess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in the Wittumspalais, Weimar. Another example, made by David Roentgen and branded with a French royal inventory marque au feu is illustrated in D. Fabian, Roentgen Möbel aus Neuwied, 1986, p. 72, figs. 117-120.

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