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. 251
Schinkel, Architektur, Malerei, Kunstgewerbe, 1981, p. 304, no. 251