拍品专文
This work-table or table à ouvrage en coffret has a rectangular cut-cornered lid inlaid with an Apollo sunflower medallion, while sunflowers also embellish its ribbon-guilloche frieze above its basket-like sarcophagus whose hollowed sides are inlaid with trompe l'oeil flutes. Its distinctive Grecian-scrolled legs terminating in Bacchic lion paws also feature on a table aà déjeuner illustrated in G. Janneau, Le Meuble Leger en France, Paris, 1952, fig.211, while a pttern for this type of table appears in La Mesangère, plate 193 (ibid., fig.274). An identical table, although lacking the gallery to the undertier and with differing feet then in the property of countess Therese Györy, castle Perkata, and illustrated in J. Folnesics, Innenräume und Hausrat, Vienna, 1922, pl. 56.
A centre table with similar brass-inlay of circles and squares was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1994, lot 198. A further Viennese rectangular table with a guache of the Hofburg by Wiegand to the top and with identical out-swept ormolu sabots from the collection of W.M. Mensing was sold by Mensing & Fils, Amsterdam, 23-25 November 1937, lot 129 (illus.).
A centre table with similar brass-inlay of circles and squares was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1994, lot 198. A further Viennese rectangular table with a guache of the Hofburg by Wiegand to the top and with identical out-swept ormolu sabots from the collection of W.M. Mensing was sold by Mensing & Fils, Amsterdam, 23-25 November 1937, lot 129 (illus.).