A Pair of Large Elegant Candelabras with Four-armed Girandols
Joseph Ulrich Danhauser, Werkstatt (Wien 1780 - Wien 1829), and studio
Lot-No. 755
Starting Bid: 8.000 €
Vienna. Around 1815. Wood, carved, Wood, carved, stuccoed, painted black and gold. H. 158 cm. Slight traces of age, min. chipped, min. rep. Three slender shafts on a three-sided base, carved with lion paws, palmettes and Bacchus heads, in between diagonal thin struts in a typical bronze look, at the upper end with gilded relief figures in antique-style robes. A 4-armed girandole with a slender, vase-shaped shaft, carved with palmette and tassel decoration and a crowning flame on the upper cover plate of the candelabra. One girandole inscribed 'Schirandol zu Gahndalauber' (= girandole for candelabra) on the underside. - Expertise: Expert report from Christian Eduard Franke Antiquitäten GmbH, Bamberg, 11 November 2008 - Provenance: Acquired in 2008 from Christian Eduard Franke Antiquitäten, Bamberg; since then private property Lower Saxony - Danhauser is one of the most important representatives of Viennese Classicism and Biedermeier furniture. After training as a cabinetmaker and sculptor, he founded the 'Etablissement für alle Gegenstände des Ameublements' in Vienna in 1804 with production facilities in Palais Czernin. He employed over 100 people, who produced furniture, curtains, upholstery, carpets, bronzes and glass, as well as pulpits and altars. In 1812, the Court Chamber granted him the exclusive privilege to produce a paste he had developed to imitate bronze as decoration. The entire graphic estate of the Danhauser furniture factory is in the collection of the MAK Vienna (approx. 2500 sheets)
Joseph Ulrich Danhauser, Werkstatt: A Pair of Large Elegant Candelabras with Four-armed Girandols
Joseph Ulrich Danhauser, Werkstatt (Wien 1780 - Wien 1829), and studio
A Pair of Large Elegant Candelabras with Four-armed Girandols
Lot-No. 755
Starting Bid: 8.000 €
Vienna. Around 1815. Wood, carved, Wood, carved, stuccoed, painted black and gold. H. 158 cm. Slight traces of age, min. chipped, min. rep. Three slender shafts on a three-sided base, carved with lion paws, palmettes and Bacchus heads, in between diagonal thin struts in a typical bronze look, at the upper end with gilded relief figures in antique-style robes. A 4-armed girandole with a slender, vase-shaped shaft, carved with palmette and tassel decoration and a crowning flame on the upper cover plate of the candelabra. One girandole inscribed 'Schirandol zu Gahndalauber' (= girandole for candelabra) on the underside. - Expertise: Expert report from Christian Eduard Franke Antiquitäten GmbH, Bamberg, 11 November 2008 - Provenance: Acquired in 2008 from Christian Eduard Franke Antiquitäten, Bamberg; since then private property Lower Saxony - Danhauser is one of the most important representatives of Viennese Classicism and Biedermeier furniture. After training as a cabinetmaker and sculptor, he founded the 'Etablissement für alle Gegenstände des Ameublements' in Vienna in 1804 with production facilities in Palais Czernin. He employed over 100 people, who produced furniture, curtains, upholstery, carpets, bronzes and glass, as well as pulpits and altars. In 1812, the Court Chamber granted him the exclusive privilege to produce a paste he had developed to imitate bronze as decoration. The entire graphic estate of the Danhauser furniture factory is in the collection of the MAK Vienna (approx. 2500 sheets)
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