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Collection
Production
- design: Bromsgrove Guild, Bromsgrove, 1898
- execution: Bromsgrove Guild, Bromsgrove, 1898
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Subject
Measurements
- height: 67 cm
- diameter: 88 cm
Inventory number
- H 932
Acquisition
- purchase, 1899
Department
- Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Description
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This simple, collapsible and expandable tea table by Britain’s Bromsgrove Guild—one of the most important associations of British Arts and Crafts movement artists—was modeled on the so-called “gateleg tables” of the Victorian era; the museum
acquired it in 1899 through the firm of Ernst Knopp in Berlin. By purchasing English furniture, Arthur von Scala (1845–1909), museum director from 1897 to 1909, strove to do justice to the statutes of the museum, which had been founded based upon the model of London’s South Kensington Museum (today’s Victoria and Albert Museum) and defined itself as an institution for the aesthetic and economic furtherance of the domestic applied arts. Von Scala sought to use such English
imports to foster an appreciation among his domestic audience for the kind of well-built, solid carpenter’s furniture that was sold by numerous English companies.
(Hackenschmidt, Sebastian)
Last update
- 06.12.2024
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