A rectangular worktable by David Roentgen

A rectangular worktable by David Roentgen

Rosewood, banded maple and various other wood veneers (some stained) on a corpus of softwood and cherry. Ormolu and brass mountings, original iron lock. Straight apron with wide front drawer on tapering square section supports with paler borders. The drawer containing a sliding writing surface concealing two rows of four drawers beneath. The apron decorated on three sides with flowerhead and foliage motifs, the top with a large bouquet of flowers and folage surrounding a ribbon-tied thyrsus. With a later key. H 74, W 67, D 45 cm.
Produced by David Roentgen in Neuwied or Paris, circa 1780 - 85.

Provenance

Acquired from Fischer-Böhler, Munich, in October 1985.
Private collection, Westphalia.

Literature

Cf. Greber, Abraham und David Roentgen. Möbel für Europa, vol. 2, Starnberg 1980, illus. 338 f, for a very similar table made in Paris.
For more on this motif see, Stiegel, Präzision und Hingabe. Möbelkunst von Abraham und David Roentgen, Berlin 2007, no. 6, p. 72 ff.