Small wardrobe

Furniture Collection

Accession Nr.: 79.210.1
Date of production:
ca. 1890
Place of production: Budapest (presumably);
Materials: bamboo; maplewood; pinewood
Techniques: lacquered
Dimensions:
height: 115 cm
width: 118 cm
depth: 50 cm
Bamboo rods enframe the square-shaped body. The edges are lined with thin bamboo rods their ends are shod and muffed with metal. There is a drawer equipped with two metal pulls at the bottom its panel is decorated with hummingbirds and blossoming boughs against a golden base. The doors are decorated with inlay in a frame of bamboo rod quarters, decorated with blossoming syringa and almond boughs with bees, against a painted golden base. There are three shelves inside. The top is decorated with X-shaped bamboo rails. Equipped with two contemporary keyhole shields. In the last few decades of the 19th century, bamboo furniture was available in the downtown of Budapest, at Gröber's, whose shop was in the Haris Bazaar, at 4 Koronaherceg (today Sándor Petőfi) Street.

Literature

  • a kiállítást rendezte: Batári Ferenc, Vadászi Erzsébet: Historizmus és eklektika. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1992. - Nr. 83. (Zlinszkyné Sternegg Mária)