Vilhelm Dahlerup for Severin & Andreas Jensen: A pair of rosewood salon chairs, circa 1870-90 (2)

Automatic translation from Danish.

Vilhelm Dahlerup (1836-1907). A pair of salon chairs of solid and veneered, richly carved rosewood. Curved fluted stern posts terminated in curved cup-pieces flanked by eagle heads. Curved klismos legs carved with flutes, pearl bars and acanthus, terminated on fine lion feet. Sideboards with intarsia in light wood with friezes with winding foliage. Below, openwork carvings with leaf volutes. Seats with spring springs, mounted with original underlay. Outer fabric missing. Made by Severin & Andreas Jensen, c. 1870-90.

Litt.: One of the two chairs offered is the actual chair described and depicted in the book 'Furniture with Meaning' by Mirjam Gelfer-Jørgensen, Arkitektens Forlag. Volume I, p. 275.

Vilhelm Dahlerup was the creator and co-architect of several of Copenhagen's well-known buildings and major landmarks, including the New Carlsberg Brewery and the Elephant Gate in Valby, the Royal Danish Theatre, Hotel d'Angleterre, Kongens Nytorv, the National Gallery of Denmark, the Pantomime Theatre in Tivoli, etc.