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A carved Australian blackwood wardrobe by Robert Prenzel, circa…
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Melbourne
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8-Aug-2022
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A carved Australian blackwood wardrobe by Robert Prenzel, circa 1908, of two tall cupboards enclosing hanging compartments flanking a recessed central arrangement of a smaller cupboard, drawers, and open compartments, all on a plinth base, each of the tall cupboards with a sculpted Art Nouveau style pediment containing a koala face carved in deep relief above a door finely carved in relief with, respectively, a kangaroo and an emu standing beneath a fruiting eucalyptus sapling, the doors of the central cupboard carved in relief with, respectively, a kookaburra and a cockatoo perched amidst fruiting eucalyptus, all four front corners carved in relief with stylised waratah decoration, 223 cm high, 233 cm wide, 60 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 p. 20, fig. 34 (illustrating this wardrobe)
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Furniture: Wardrobes