Accession Nr.: 68.7.1
Place of production: Hungary
Materials: pinewood base; walnut wood veneer
Techniques: turned details
Dimensions:
height: 77 cm
width: 127 cm
length: 79 cm
The central baluster legs rest on four S-shaped supports and are enriched with four twisted columns. The oval top is jointed in a wave. The frieze is also jointed and contains a drawer. The table was made in Late Neo-Rococo taste. According to the previous owner the table belonged to the dowry of one of her ancestors, Paulina Roffi Borbély (b. 20/10/1835), who married Baron Sándor Nyáry on May 28th, 1861. The table belongs to a parlour suite also in the collection of the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts, with inv.Nos. 68.4-15.

Literature

  • a kiállítást rendezte: Batári Ferenc, Vadászi Erzsébet: Historizmus és eklektika. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1992. - Nr. 42. (Batári Ferenc)