547 - Sewing table with burr veneer and banded inlay on baluster columns, Historicism, probably circa 1880

Sewing table with burr veneer and banded inlay on baluster columns, Historicism, probably circa 1880 Hardwood, dark stained, burr veneered, sewing table with rectangular top with chamfered, recessed corners and light banded inlay all round, frieze with one drawer with pierced brass-coloured escutcheon and compartments, two turned baluster columns on curved scroll feet with rolled ends, joined by a turned stretcher, probably circa 1880, top with water damage, veneer partly damaged, without key, 79.5x60x45 cm (HxWxD) The sewing table belongs to the bourgeois domestic culture of the Gründerzeit between about 1850 and 1900; characteristic are the veneered top, the drawer with interior compartments, the articulated baluster columns with column-shaped stretcher and the curved feet with volutes. The stylistic forms of Historicism draw on the Renaissance and Baroque with column, volute and inlaid band. Such a Gründerzeit sewing table is also sought as work table or Historicism side table.