The Filigree Furniture Ornament at Rosenborg Castle.
(Post in preparation).
The Rosenborg Castle Collection website is due for an update.
The furniture was originally ebonised, repainted red and recently repainted blue.
I have contacted Rosenborg but although they have been helpful with some photographs of their filigree so far they have seemed reluctant to provide high resolution photographs of these pieces which are key to identifying European filigree.
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I am very grateful to Peter Kristiansen, Curator at Rosenborg for providing me with the image above.
I have asked for more detailed photographs.
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Extract below from Silver Furniture Rosenborg, by Mogens Bencard. Pub. 1992.
Frederik Gabel and the Rosenborg Filigree Furniture.
It has been assumed that this furniture was made in Paris - and exported to Denmark.
If this is the case then they are very rare examples of French 17th Century Filigree.
The vast majority of French silver was melted down on the orders of Louis XIV in early December of 1689 in order to finance his war against the league of Augsburg.
His entire collection disappeared as did that of most of his subjects who had collections. The decree of December 1689 gave a lengthy list of what type of objects were included.
The French aristocracy were forced to send all their precious pieces of silver furniture and other more mundane articles to the Hotel des Monnaies.
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The Lost German Tables.
Scans from Der Silber und Goldschatz der Hohenzollern im Kugl Schlosse zu Berlin by Paul Siedel.
One of two tables - lost in 1945 possibly looted by the Russians in the aftermath of the War.
The Monogram is of Princess Louise Henriëtte of
Orange who died in 1667.
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For a short essay on German silver furniture see -
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