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Lot 117 Dα

A rare lacquered box decorated with animals

Auction 1169 - overview Berlin
24.04.2021, 11:00 - Prussian Sale
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
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A rare lacquered box decorated with animals

Wooden box of oval section painted with red and black lacquer, the designs picked out in colours and gold and silver powder. Decorated with various animals including a fox, a deer, and a dog amidst shrubbery and birds perching in trees. H 9.3, W 17.4, D 12.7 cm.
Berlin, attributed to Andreas Völckert, c. 1720 - 30.

At the court of the Prussian Queen Sophie Dorothea, the mother of Frederick II, there were several lacquer painters working in the Japanese style, inspired by the great English lacquer cabinet now in Charlottenburg Palace. The lacquerist Andreas Völckert, who died in 1733, is known to have delivered a table with "Indian figures" in black and gold to the court in April 1720. Today, the furniture is counted among the war losses. Another similarly painted polychrome table in the historic rooms of Wolfenbüttel Palace is today also attributed to Andreas Völckert. Another casket with chinoiseries, similar plants and animals, also attributed to his hand, was sold by Lempertz Berlin in auction 1018 on 12th October 2013 under lot 6.

Literature

Cf. Reepen/Handke, Chinoiserie - Möbel und Wandverkleidungen, Leipzig 1996, no. 12, for a box in Homburg Palace. Cf. Kopplin, European Lacquer, Munich 2010, p. 193 f.