Small table

Furniture Collection

Accession Nr.: 79.211.1
Date of production:
ca. 1890
Place of production: unknown (presumably)
Materials: bamboo
Techniques: bent
Dimensions:
height: 78 cm
width: 53 cm
depth: 37 cm
The four legs are curved outwards at the bottom, with a majolica plate in bamboo frame screwed to the top and to the bottom. The plate is decorated with an old looking building surrounded by a blossoming apple bough. The end of the bamboo rods are shod with metal. The majolica is marked under glaze with hand-painted 19(3)w53. At the end of the 19th century, bamboo furniture were available at Gröber's, in the downtown of Budapest. His 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. 82.