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A carved Australian blackwood dressing table by Robert Prenzel,…
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Melbourne
Date:
8-Aug-2022
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Description:
A carved Australian blackwood dressing table by Robert Prenzel, circa 1908, the rectangular top with a high back supporting a swinging mirror above a pair of small drawers, a pair of frieze drawers and cupboards flanking a kneehole below, on a plinth base, the back with an Art Nouveau style pediment finely carved with a spray of flowering banksia and surmounted with a figure of a possum, the cupboard doors carved in relief with, respectively, a standing raven and a sugar glider in flight beneath fruiting foliage, the outer sides of the back also carved in relief with foliage, 187 cm high, 137 cm wide, 48.5 cm deep. Provenance: part of a suite of bedroom furniture commissioned from Robert Prenzel circa 1908 by Margaret Laidlaw as a gift for her husband, Thomas Haliburton Laidlaw, and installed at 'Kilora', Hamilton, Victoria, Thence by descent in the Laidlaw family, Western District, Victoria, Literature: Terence Lane, Robert Prenzel, 1866-1941: his life and work, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1994, p. 18 (referring to the suite generally) and relatedly p. 20, fig. 34 (illustrating the wardrobe from the suite - lot 86 in the present auction)
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Furniture: Dressing Tables