Description

David Roentgen, Neuwied 1785-90

 

Working table in mahogany, solid and veneered, with brass galleries, rosettes, and mouldings.

 

Oval transforming table with shelf, the central drawer under the top conceals a leather-covered writing surface, which triggers the mechanism of drawers that spring open at the sides when pulled out. The top must be moved backwards to make the work surface usable and the legs must be unscrewed, as with many pieces of furniture from the Roentgen workshop in Neuwied, which were stowed away in the most space-saving and careful way for the enormously long distribution routes throughout Europe and as far as Russia.

 

An identical table has been preserved in Schloss Fasanerie near Fulda from the estate of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel: Philippine von Brandenburg-Schwedt (1745-1800), the second wife of Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel, owned numerous pieces of furniture and clocks from David Roentgen's workshop.

 

Height: 76 cm, width: 72 cm, depth: 50 cm

 

Cf: Exhib. Cat. Schloss Fasanerie 2019, “Die Möbel der Mächtigen. Meisterwerke der Schreinerkunst und ihre Besitzer”

Cf: Wolfram Koeppe, “Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, New Haven and London” 2012, p. 180

Cf.: Dietrich Fabian, “Roentgenmöbel aus Neuwied, Bad Neustadt” 1986, p. 85, pic. 160

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