A fine Austrian neoclassical ormolu-mounted tulipwood, fruitwood and marquetry table Vienna, last quarter 18th century

With scattered age and construction cracks, some abrasions and scratches. Marquetry with scattered restorations and some patches with the largest patch to one corner of drawer with some adjoining small replaced marquetry elements. Further scattered small replaced marquetry elements. Inpainting to old marquetry losses overall, most to top. With later varnish; now with craquelure and some small losses. Ormolu with rubbing, some oxidation and surface dirt.
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Although this table is comparable with work produced by Swedish-born furniture maker Georg Haupt, the use of pine and oak as secondary woods in combination with an extremely fine and intricate inlay close to Northern Italian marquetry refers to a more central European origin. With their elegantly restrained form and precise chasing, the ormolu mounts relate to the oeuvre of the Viennese court bronzier and silversmith Joseph Ignaz Wurth (d.1792).