Wardrobe
| Accession Nr.: | 70.55.1 |
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| Artist/Maker: |
Freund, Vilmos (1846 - 1920) Spiegel, Frigyes (1866 - 1933) |
| Date of production: |
ca. 1910
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| Place of production: | Budapest |
| Inscription: | nincs |
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| Materials: | metal studs; pearwood; pinewood |
| Techniques: | decorated with mounts; pearwood veneer |
| Dimensions: |
height: 196 cm
width: 119 cm
depth: 51 cm
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The wardrobe stands on four short, carved feet. There is a wide drawer with ornamental, metal pulls and a keyhole shield above the plinth articulated in profile. The standing, prismatic wardrobe has two doors they are decorated with a stressed, mounted decoration of black tendrils. Each door is enriched with a square panel at the level of the lock, revealing a carved female portrait with the following inscriptions: SI VIS AMARI AMA, and NIHIL EST VIRTUTTE (sic) AMARILUS [Love, if you want to be beloved - nothing is bitterer than virtue. Seneca, Moral epistles, 1.9]. The top corniche is protruding, plain.
Literature
- Somogyi Zsolt: A magyar szecesszió bútorművészete. Corvina Kiadó, Budapest, 2009. - Nr. 129.
- Szerk.: Szilágyi András, Horányi Éva: Szecesszió. A 20. század hajnala. (Az európai iparművészet korszakai.). Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1996. - Nr. 9.15 (Horányi Éva)
