Highly rare Biedermeier rocking chair
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In design and production probably attributable to Michael Thonet, ca. 1840, dark stained layered and glued beechwood structure with walnut veneer, turned rails, later fabric cover, various losses to the veneer, some areas of considerable ageing. (DOC) This piece most likely represents a design from the first generation of designs by Michael Thonet – certainly here the glued veneers are clearly thicker than in the Boppard chairs. Around 1860 the metal rocking chairs by R. W. Winfield were produced (known as the Winfieldrocker), which follow this same model. Eva B. Ottilinger mentions in her book Gebrüder Thonet Möbel aus gebogenem Holz a rocking chair by Christian Haumann (who settled in Vienna from Munich in 1843 – a year after Michael Thonet) – he created a variant of the rocking chair from iron and wood components. A model which Ottilinger describes as possibly by Chr. Haumann, in the form of the WinfieldRocker, and which now only exists in photographic form at the picture archive of the Austrian national library in Vienna, is very similar to the design of the present example. Lit.: Eva B. Ottilinger (pub), Gebrüder Thonet Möbel aus gebogenem Holz, vol 16, p. 28 ff., Böhlau Verlag Vienna Cologne Weimar, 2003
Specialist: Alexander Doczy
Alexander Doczy
+43-1-515 60-302
alexander.doczy@dorotheum.at
07.10.2009 - 15:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 3,250.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 3,000.- to EUR 4,000.-
Highly rare Biedermeier rocking chair
In design and production probably attributable to Michael Thonet, ca. 1840, dark stained layered and glued beechwood structure with walnut veneer, turned rails, later fabric cover, various losses to the veneer, some areas of considerable ageing. (DOC) This piece most likely represents a design from the first generation of designs by Michael Thonet – certainly here the glued veneers are clearly thicker than in the Boppard chairs. Around 1860 the metal rocking chairs by R. W. Winfield were produced (known as the Winfieldrocker), which follow this same model. Eva B. Ottilinger mentions in her book Gebrüder Thonet Möbel aus gebogenem Holz a rocking chair by Christian Haumann (who settled in Vienna from Munich in 1843 – a year after Michael Thonet) – he created a variant of the rocking chair from iron and wood components. A model which Ottilinger describes as possibly by Chr. Haumann, in the form of the WinfieldRocker, and which now only exists in photographic form at the picture archive of the Austrian national library in Vienna, is very similar to the design of the present example. Lit.: Eva B. Ottilinger (pub), Gebrüder Thonet Möbel aus gebogenem Holz, vol 16, p. 28 ff., Böhlau Verlag Vienna Cologne Weimar, 2003
Specialist: Alexander Doczy
Alexander Doczy
+43-1-515 60-302
alexander.doczy@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Works of Art (Silver, Furniture) |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 07.10.2009 - 15:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 26.09. - 07.10.2009 |
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