A rediscovered masterpiece of the Nuremberg Renaissance... Lot 405

A rediscovered masterpiece of the Nuremberg Renaissance - Renaissance library table Nuremberg around 1540, probably after a design by the Nuremberg master Peter Flötner (born 1486/95 in Thurgau, died 23.10.1546 in Nuremberg) Solid walnut and oak, turned and masterfully carved in relief. Rectangular, protruding, massive tabletop over a three-door frame and four massive, turned and carved baluster legs, with H-shaped bridge. The frame is embedded on all sides with longitudinally rectangular, recessed and profiled bordered cassettes. Inside are magnificent tendrils of rolling acanthus, which unfold from pretzel-like heart cartridges. The long sides are each decorated with three adjacent cassettes, the middle cassettes are decorated with four pears with stalk and foliage, or a pear blossom with a hanging pear, below the keyhole. Lozengework scaled between the cassettes. The narrow sides with similar cassettes, the fillings here decorated with two birds of paradise connected by a cord at the neck. In their beaks they each hold a pear of fine style, rich acanthus scrollwork unfolds over the open space. The pears with a hinted fruit stamp, in it the initials "N" and "O". One side with three drawers, the inside is worked in oak. Surrounding ribbon as lambrequin with fine scale band. The four massive legs in the form of chased, notched and carved balusters. Each baluster with geometric circle motifs and acanthus leaves. The web connection of the narrow sides also with a Lambrequin, the main web with a grooved profile. Few, old additions of the time, very beautiful patina. With unknown master stamp "N". "„O“. Provenance: From old Swiss property. Cf. Dr. Konrad Lange, Peter Flötner - Ein Bahnbrecher der deutschen Renaissance, Berlin, 1897; Fränkische Galerie am Marientor, Peter Flötner and the Renaissance in Germany. Exhibition on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Peter Flötner's death, 14 December 1946 to 28 February 1947; Barbara Dienst, Der Kosmo