Antique Danish chair - Vilhem Dahlerup

Carved walnut chair, in contrasting wood marquetry, decorated with crested birds and palmette friezes.

The backrest, suspended between two molded uprights, is carved with rosettes and foliage and the four decorated feet are joined by a ringed spacer.

Danish work from the 1860s, attributed to Vilhem Dahlerup.

Reproduced in “Herculaneum Paa Sjaelland” by Mirjam Gelfer-Jorgensen (p 254, Classicism and neo-antiquity in the Danish furniture tradition.).
Provenance: collection of Carl and Ottilia Jacobsen.
Back height: 99 cm.
Seat height: 46 cm.
Depth: 47 cm.
Width: 45 cm.