A Neoclassical carved giltwood mirror - image-1

Lot 422 Dα

A Neoclassical carved giltwood mirror

Auction 1084 - overview Berlin
03.05.2017, 18:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 4.000 € - 4.500 €

A Neoclassical carved giltwood mirror

Of narrow rectangular form with pierced upper section and laurel festoons. Retouches. H 134, W 61.5 cm.
Berlin, late 18th / early 19th C., after a design by Friedrich Wichmann, 1795.

The present work is a pier glass made by the Kunst Waaren und Meubles Fabrique Friedrich Wichmann & Comp., which was illustrated in a very similar form in the April 1795 issue of the Journal für Fabrik, Manufaktur, Handlung und Mode.

Literature

The engraving in the Möbelfabrik Friedrich Wichmann in: Hahn, Virtuelles Berlin um 1800, http://www.berliner-klassik.de/bk_stadtplan/gui/pdfexport.php?id_ort=69.
A similar example with a crowning flower basket in: Kratz, Altonaer Möbel des Rokoko und Klassizismus, Hamburg 1988, p. 226.