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Italianising Biedermeier vanity dressing mirror with «Solomonic Columns»
North Germany 1850. Birch and fruitwood, veneered. Rectangular box with one drawer with interior arrangement, a pair of turned columns with onion-shaped finials resting on cubes with star decor, swivelling rectangular mirror crowned by a volute pediment decorated with round shields. Base richly inlaid with striped bands, rhomb frieze and Pompeian velarium motif. On the back of the drawer handwritten dated and with annotation of former owner «Carl Bimmel». Escutcheon bordered with bone.
H 67,
«Solomonic columns», which according to tradition could be marvelled in King Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, are columns whose shafts are rotated around their own axis. Starting from the ancient model of the «colonne vitinee» in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the architecture and furniture art of the Baroque period was all about the playful spiral columns, but even later, perhaps out of a romantic longing for Italy, they were occasionally imitated, as can be seen in the example of this Biedermeier vanity dressing mirror.
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