A Gustavian marquetry, ormolu-mounted, and marble table by G. Iwersson (master in Stockholm 1778-1813), signed 1781.
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Freestanding, veneered with amaranth, birch, and maple. Inlays with optical relief effect. Richly ornamented fittings of gilded bronze. Rectangular Carrara marble top within a border decorated with stippled fields. The apron contains two drawers, drawer fronts and long sides with a continuous recessed frieze of interlaced ribbons, fleurons, and lobed leaves, on four square tapering legs with inlays of laurel swags and terminating in brass ferrules. Signed inside the drawer with a handwritten label "Gottlieb Iwerson / schattulmakare och snickare / i Stockholm Ao/ 1781 "( G I cabinetmaker in Stockholm Ao/ 1781). Length 55, width 35.5, height 74.5 cm. Key included.
Provenance
Count Gustaf Malcom Hamilton's (1826-1914) collections at Hedensberg, Västmanland, according to a note in the table, purchased at an auction in 1884. Bukowskis auction A204, 1915, catalogue number 139. The banker, collector, and donor John Håkansson (1846-1917) purchased at the aforementioned auction. His widow Johanna Håkansson (1853-1919), from whom it was disposed of before 1919. Subsequently in the collections at Torup Castle, Bara parish, Skåne.
Literature
Ernst Fischer: Kongl. slottssnickaren och schatullmakaren Gottlieb Iwersson,, Gothenburg 1916, page 54 no. 5, illustrated plate 13.
Swedish Castles and Manor Houses, Västmanland,
Stockholm 1910: Hedensberg, page 13.
Castles and Manor Houses in Sweden: Skåne Part II, Alhems: Malmö, 1966: Torup, illustrated page 358.
More information
Hela sin verksamhetstid, fram till sin död 1813, snickrade Iwersson intarsiadekorerade möbler med rika beslagsuppsättningar med mer eller mindre av Haupts attribut. Alltid med de exklusivaste materialen. Detta även under den efterföljande sengustavianska perioden, då släta mahognymöbler med mässingsdetaljer var det förhärskande och då Iwersson var den tongivande snickaren.
