library table

• furniture and woodwork collection

• execution: anonymous, Vienna, about 1750

• Baroque

• Nussbaum- und Ahornholz,

• furniert,

• politiert; Polsterung mit Textilbezug

• height: 82 cm
• width: 159 cm
• depth: 112 cm

• H 1185-1

• assumption , 1909

• Furniture and Woodwork Collection

This library table originally belonged to the furnishings of the Vienna Jesuit College library (the old University library) and is thus one of the few verifiable pieces of Viennese marquetry furniture of the 1st half of the 18th century. The entire interior decoration and furnishings were dismantled and removed in 1884. This type of adaptable library table, like the one here with its four retractable chairs, is to be found primarily in Austrian or South German monastery libraries. (Witt-Dörring, Christian)

• MAK-Schausammlung Barock Rokoko Klassizismus

ausgestellt

• library table, Anonym, MAK Inv.nr. H 1185-1

• https://mak-wp.711.at/en/collect/library-table_184372

• 14.10.2025