The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Concealed Drawer for a Globe Work Table (Globustisch)
c. 1810–15
Overall: 5.3 x 8.5 x 6 cm (2 1/16 x 3 3/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Location: not on view
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The top half of the globe rotates upward to reveal hidden compartments for sewing tools, threads, and unfinished fabric pieces.Description
Work tables resembling globes were the usual form for a lady's sewing or writing table around 1800 in Austria. Combining moving parts, secret compartments, and highly finished decoration, these tables were also a way for the cabinetmaker to show off his skill. The tripod supports and temple-like architectural quality of both the exterior and interior decoration reflect the fashionable taste for neoclassical style, or Biedermeier as it was called in Austria, where Vienna was the center of such elaborate furniture production.- by 2004Private Collection, Switzerland, sold to Bernd Goeckler Antiquesby 2004(Bernd Goeckler Antiques, Inc., New York, NY, sold to Hiedemann Fine Art)December 2004(Hiedemann Fine Art, Richmond, VA, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)2004–2020Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH2020Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art2020–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.199.f