We offer furniture from 18th to early 19th century, from neo-classicism and empire to Biedermeier like salon furniture, writing cabinets, writing desks, commodes, various kind of gueridons, globe tables, half-globe tables, extending tables, center tables, occasional furniture from around 1800, different kinds of work plates, showcases, cupboards, seat furniture and signed furniture from famous ebenists.

SALON TABLE - Vienna, ca. 1830
Cherry veneered, height: 77,8 cm, width: 66,8 cm, depth: 50,5 cm
Provenance: Lobkowicz, Mêlnik castle (CZ)

WRITING DESK by Johann Reimann (master around 1800) - Vienna, 1803
signed and dated: „Verfertiget v. Johann Reimann / bürgerl. (.) Tischlermeister in Wienn den 1st Jannuari 1803"
Height: 96,5 cm, width: 75 cm, depth: 47,5 cm
Satin and yew veneered, corpus in beech or oak, fire gilded bronze. The fine design shows the high quality of furniture-making in Vienna around 1800. The 1803 dated desk from Johann Reiman (master cabinet-maker in Vienna 1800) is the first known furniture in this manner.

BUREAU PLAT - France, circa 1750
Height: 78 cm, width: 106 cm, depth: 69 cm
Mahogany veneered on hard wood, brown leather writing surface framed with bronze, gilt bronze mounts, two drawers, square tapering legs with sabots.

WRITING DESK - Studio of Danhauser
Vienna, circa 1830
Mahogany veneered, height: 100 cm, width: 139 cm, depth: 81 cm
The writing desk shows a remarkable garland veneer delineation along the oval corpus. The underpart consists of three drawers and two swing doors, behind them on each side you find four maple veneered drawers. In the upper part there are six drawers and four cases and a fine pierced brass trembleuse gallery frames the demilune formed desk top. Fire gild mounts..
Josef Ulrich Danhauser (1780-1929) grounded 1804 the “Etablissement for all objects of Ameublements”. In his workshop were later produced furniture, lamps etc. after his drawings for the rich Viennese customer class. The Albertina and the Geymüller-Schlössel in Vienna were furnished amongst others. Danhauser´s draft design drawings are to be found in the art collection of the MAK in Vienna. After his death, his son Josef Danhauser (1805-1845), a famous painter and graphic artist, led the company until 1838 and designed style reforming furniture for Vienna.
Literatur: Wolfgang L. Eller, Schreibmöbel 1700 – 1850, Petersburg 2006, S. 287, 297, 304-305.

REGENCY EXTENDING TABLE - England or Holland, circa 1820
Height: 70 cm, width: 102 cm, length: 144 cm, extendable up to 515 cm
Mahogany veneered, rectangular, every flank on the left and right side is to fold down.

GUERIDON - Italian, circa 1810
Height: 92 cm, diameter: 42 cm
Nutwood, white marble top, gilded applications. Three tapering legs with lion feets and heads uprising from a concave tripatited plinth.
Compare with an Ialian table from the Museo Napoleonico in Rome, pictued in: Enrico Colle: Il mobile Impero in Italia. Arredi e decorazioni d'interni dal 1800 al 1843, Milano 1998, p. 82, No. 19.

SMALL EMPIRE COMMODE - Vienna, circa 1800
Height: 79 cm, width: 70 cm, depth: 39 cm
Mahogany veneered, gilt bronze mounts, one door, rounded sides, with black marble top, tapering legs with sabots.

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SALON TABLE - Vienna, circa 1810
Height: 72 cm, lenght: 82 cm, width: 55 cm
Mahogany veneered, ormolu mounts, square tapering legs with foliate cast sabots, one drawer.

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A FINE SUITE OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD SALON FURNITURE
Paris, circa 1780
carved stamped “Nadal l´Aine”. Jean-René Nadal (1733-1783)
Comprising two fauteuils à la reine, a pair of bergères and a canapé, the oval backrest carved with plaits, padded armrests on down-curved leaf-carved supports, the bow-fronted seat carved with guilloche, raised on round tapered stop-fluted legs. Five pieces, original upholstery with petit point needle works showing hunting scenes.
Literature: Kjellberg, Pierre: Le Mobilier Francais du XVIIe Siècle. Dictionnaire des ébénistes et des menuisiers, Paris 2002, p. 644.

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EMPIRE TABLE - Lucca, ca. 1815
Height: 31,1 ‘’ (79 cm), diameter: 22,44 ‘’ (57 cm)
Mahogany, round top with fire gilt ring, painted top imitates different marbles, three legs in form of swans.
Compare: Enrico Colle: Italian Empire Furniture. Furnishings and interior design from 1800 to 1843, Rizzoli, New York 2001, p. 218, fig. 72.

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PAIR OF CONSOLES - South Germany, circa 1830
Height: 75 cm, width: 60 cm, depth: 32 cm
Cherry veneered, partly ebonised and gilded, gilded mounts. Provenance: Graf Recke-Volmerstein, Louisdorf (Silesia).

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PIANO FORTE - Vienna, circa 1810
Joseph Dohnal: 1759-1829 Vienna
Signed „Joseph Dohnal in Wien“
Heigth: 73.5 cm, width: 110 cm, depth: 40 cm

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WRITING CABINET - Austria or Hungary, dated: 1779
Heigth: 225 cm, width: 134 cm, depth: 72 cm
Rich marquetery, partly with geometrical inlays with eight different woods (apple, bog oak, poplar, boxwood, plum, maple, acacia and walnut) and mother-of-pearl portraits of Emperor Joseph II. (1741-1790) and (probably) his second wife Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1739-1767), serpentine fronted base with three drawers and a dummy drawer under the writing surface, inclosing a fitted interior with several small drawers hiding a secret-depository, upper part with a scrolled pediment, above two doors opening to a shelved interior with several drawers and another door.
Joseph II. wears a Hungarian magnate-dress. In the emblem: three mountain ranges in the Carpathians: Matra, Tatra and Fatra. The side bands emblematize the 4 streams: Duna, Tisza, Drava and Szava. Hungarian coat of arms: Double Sharp, beneath Crown. Above coat of arms: Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen.
Probably it was made for a Hungarian and came to Vienna many years ago.

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ITALIAN COMMODE - Verona, middle of the 18th century
Height: 110 cm, width: 129,5 cm, depth: 68 cm
Nutwood veneered, rosewood and fruitwood marquetry, floral pattern, original bronze fittings, three drawers, folding writing surface, inside two drawers on each side, case in the middle.

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PAIR OF LOUIS XVI. COMMODES
Height: 82 cm, width: 98,5 cm, depth: 52 cm
Vienna, circa 1780
Cherry and nutwood veneered, partly ebonised.

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SMALL EMPIRE COMMODE - Vienna, circa 1800
Height: 92,5 cm, width: 95,5 cm, depth: 49,5 cm
Mahogany veneered, ormolu mounts and beading strips, two doors and one drawer, fluted tapering legs with sabots.