ATTRIBUTED TO KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL, CIRCA 1830

细节

A GERMAN BEECHWOOD ARMCHAIR
ATTRIBUTED TO KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL, CIRCA 1830
The solid back-scrolled back with reeded square with flowerheads to angles and palmette spray to center, above the flat arms on griffin arm supports and the dished seat, on baluster legs joined by a box stretcher, previously white-painted

拍品专文

This armchair clearly relates to a giltwood armchair (part of a suite) designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and executed by Johann Christian Sewening Karl Wanschaff in 1828 (now in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin) for the Marmorsaal on the Piano Noblie in the palace of Prince Karl of Prussia (1801 - 1883), a Baroque palace which he completely remodeled. This armchair shares the same rectilinear outline and similar arm supports to the present example, though the armchair made for Prince Karl's palace has female sphinx arm supports rather than the winged griffins found here (J. Berger, et al., Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Möbel und Interieur, Berlin, 2002, no. 46, p. 173).