Design 17/20: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics

Design 17/20: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics

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A Swiss Black Forest Stained Lindenwood Cane Stand in the form of a Spaniel, Late 19th Century

Lot Closed

October 18, 08:45 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Swiss Black Forest Stained Lindenwood Cane Stand in the form of a Spaniel, Late 19th Century


height 37 in.; width 14 3/4 in.

94 cm; 37.5 cm

Thomas Church Collection, San Francisco

Ed Hardy Antiques, San Francisco August 1999

Despite being captioned as Swiss, the wide variety of carved lindenwood groups are called "Black Forest". 

The idea behind the marvelous success of Brienz wood carvings, so-called "Black Forest" carvings and clocks was quite simple. After a disastrous famine in 1816 in the Brienz area at the Swiss/German border people were forced to find new areas of revenues. Driven by the need to create jobs in the Bernese Oberland, an economically underdeveloped region, the Swiss government encouraged the existing resource of the Lindenwood Timber industry to liaise with the traditional wooden craftsmanship. 




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