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Occasional Furniture(14)

Side table

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art (MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst)
  • Wood, partially bronzed, Austria

Two pedestal tables

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art (MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst)
  • Wood, soft wood with nut inlay in very thin platelets, gilded carvings, the recesses in the legs painted blue green, France

Small painted box

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art (MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst)
  • Beech with bismuth painting, a young married couple in traditional 16th century costume on lid with tall hat and bonnet, gothicized flowers in the corners, on the side pieces with bands of stylised flowers, South Germany

Two pedestal tables

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art (MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst)
  • Gilded, with marble disk, France (?)

Writing box

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • Vienna Museum
  • With a sliding writing top, richly inlaid, with poker work, mirror, compartments, on four feet. Wood. 18th century

Sewing table

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • Vienna Museum
  • Hemispherical on three legs with curved feet; its top can be opened. Polished mahogany. Biedermeier

Baroque escritoire and prie-dieu

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • Vienna Museum
  • Concave curved front, with five drawers. Oak with marquetry. 1st half of the 18th century

Fire screen

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • Vienna Museum
  • Petit point embroidery and beadwork on dark ground. Leaf and flower wreath. Depiction of a barefoot girl giving fodder to a kid. Carved limewood stained in black

Small wall casket

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • Museum of Ethnology
  • With carved ajour side. Islamic East

Folding chair

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • Museum of Ethnology
  • Dark hardwood with carved-in relief (Arabic scripture, tendrils, geometric patterns) and inlays from mother-of-pearl. Eight compartments with inserted short turned sticks and balls, which form a lattice. Use of wooden screws and nuts as well as bolts. Height of seat 18.11 in. Small additions and damage. Around 1900. From the Near East

Small wall casket

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • Museum of Ethnology
  • With carved ajour side, with chip carving and mother-of-pearl inlays. Islamic East

Small table

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • Museum of Ethnology
  • On a foot made from three boards (silhouette strongly broken, ajour, cross-section star with three rays) a hexagonal top board rests. All with inlays from mother-of-pearl and rough silver wire. Diameter of top board 17.13 in. Around 1900. From the Near East

Small hanging casket

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • Museum of Ethnology
  • Two doors, on the inside four drawers. The edges at the top and at the bottom embellished with friezes. On all visible sides, mosaic from bone (white and green), horn and pewter, star pattern. Mosaic partly split off. Indo-Persian, around 1920. From the Near East

Fire screen

(Occasional Furniture)

  • Unknow
  • Vienna Museum
  • On three feet (nut-wood). Coloured embroidery (wool on canvas) behind glass, depicting a bird with roses and sea rose. Wool on canvas. Overall height 48.82 in.