Sewing Table
Sewing Table
Dateabout 1833
DimensionsOverall: 28 3/4 × 21 1/4 × 16 1/8 in. (73 × 54 × 41 cm)
Mediumrosewood inlaid with brass and copper
ClassificationFurniture
Credit LineThe Charles Braton Johnson Family Furniture Fund
Object number
2025.152
Not on View
Descriptionworktable, the rectangular top with rounded corners inlaid in the center with an engraved bronze medallion repeating the image of the famous Etruscan hand mirror depicting the young Dionysus and his mother Semele.
Published ReferencesDie Welt der Etrusker, Berlin, 4.10.-30.12.1988, cat. F8, p. 361 (the mirror) and cat. L17, p. 422 (the drawing by C. Ruspi), ill. P. 350
Sievers, Johannes, Karl Friedrich Schinkel / Lebenswerk / Die Möbel, Berlin, 1950 pp. 42-44, fig. 136
Wolzogen, Alfred Freiherr von, Aus Schinkel's Nachlaß / Reisetagebücher, Briefe und Aphorismen, Berlin, 1863, Vol. II, p.316 No. 85 a. and 85 b. [Schinkel's design drawings for the sewing table]
Exhibition HistoryKarl Friedrich Schinkel / Architektur Malerei Kunstgewerbe, Berlin, 1981, p. 304, cat. 251Schinkel, Architektur, Malerei, Kunstgewerbe, 1981, p. 304, no. 251
425-350 BCE
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