Pair of Early Baroque royal chairs

Ca. 1720/30. Carved beechwood chairs with a brown finish, partly turned, with stretcher, with gold embossed leather upholstery, each with different embossing, made in the Venetian workshops, executed by the so-called Saxon court bag maker Samuel Girckhoff. Each chair is branded on the back with the crowned monogram for August the Strong. Some ageing and wear. (DOC)

Schloss Moritzburg near Dresden acquired its still unique interior from the date of 1723. Friedrich August I. (1670 - 1733), as the Polish King August II, assigned these "lederne" for this "temple de diane" – used as a hunting lodge. The 58 castle rooms located on three main floors were decorated with different ornamented gold wall hangings, which were described in 1733 in the Moritzburg castle inventory. The court bag maker Samuel Girckhoff was named in relation to the wall hangings. He is known particularly for his work on the seating in Schloss Moritzburg. The chairs offered here, through the stamp and date of 1727, can be assigned to one of the major rooms at Moritzburg.

Prov.:
formerly Schloss Moritzburg near Dresden

Lit.:
Gisela Haase, Dresdener Möbel des 18. Jahrhunderts, p. 330, fig. 200a, Leipzig 1983