Lot 956 D‡α

Franz Xaver Fortner (1798 - 1877) founded his cabinetmaking workshop in Munich in 1826. He specialized in realizing the designs of architects and artists and was so successful that he soon received commissions from the royal court. Inspired by the elaborate marquetries of André Charles Boulles, he used metal inlays combined with the most precious materials, including tortoiseshell, exotic woods and even horn, for which he had a privilege in Munich. Furniture with comparable inlays can be found today in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Bavarian National Museum (inv. no. 2004/392.1-2) in Munich or at Stolzenfels Castle on the Rhine.