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HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN HAND-DECORATED DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE. Miniature chest and wardrobe, black...
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HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN HAND-DECORATED DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE. Miniature chest and wardrobe, black painted wood decorated with gilt lacquer cut-outs featuring fantastical motifs by Hans Christian Andersen for his god-children in the family of Jonna Stampe (nee Drewsen), the eldest grand-daughter of his benefactor Jonas Collin, chest 260 x 320 x 175 mm, four drawers, brass drop-handles and escutcheons, bun feet, interiors painted white; wardrobe 515 x 350 x 192 mm, brass faux-escutcheons, later hanging hook to rear panel, bracket feet, minor chipping to corners, a few cut-outs peeling; each with paper inventory label '6373/44,' c. 1855. Provenance: Nysø Manor, the Stampe family; later, Lerchenborg Collection; sold, The Saxhoff Collection, part two, April 19, 2005, lot 4212. MINIATURE DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE CREATED AND DECORATED BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN WITH FANTASTICAL CUT-OUTS FEATURING FAIRY-TALE AND ORIENTAL MOTIFS. Andersen's cutouts and hand-made books are as much a part of his art as his fairy tales. As he captioned a tableau of dancers in one of his hand-made books, 'Fra H.C. Andersens saks/ sprang et eventyr straks' ('From Andersen's scissors/ A fairy-tale sprang forth'). Andersen had known Jonna Stampe (nee Drewsen) since her birth in 1827, the first granddaughter of his greatest benefactor, Jonas Collin. He had introduced her to her future husband Baron Henrik Stampe, playing matchmaker for the couple despite a profound affection for Henrik. He even wrote a play about their courtship (The Flower of Happiness, October 1844). Andersen was the godfather to their three daughters, and together with August Drewsen, the girls' grandfather, he created three elaborate picture books for them during the 1850s. These pieces of miniature furniture, decorated with Andersen's cutouts featuring exotic motifs both from the fantastic world of fairy tales and from the real world of faraway lands and cultures, likely date from the same period. Andersen as godfather sought to reveal a world outside of the coddled nursery. 'The books constantly make clear to the Stampe children that the world is much bigger and more dangerous but also more exciting and challenging than what a child sees in the adults' drawing room or the road outside the front door of the Nyso manor house' (Andersen, Jens, Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life, 2006). In the same vein, the Andersen cutouts used in the furniture serve to illuminate the vast, exciting and dangerous world that awaits them outside their comfortable upbringing. These miniature furniture pieces, decorated by Andersen with his cutouts, represent an extension of the picture books he produced for the Stampe family, an intensely personal expression of his world view and his unique connection to the family and his godchildren. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN HAND-DECORATED DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE. Miniature chest and wardrobe, black painted wood decorated with gilt lacquer cut-outs featuring fantastical motifs by Hans Christian Andersen for his god-children in the family of Jonna Stampe (nee Drewsen), the eldest grand-daughter of his benefactor Jonas Collin, chest 260 x 320 x 175 mm, four drawers, brass drop-handles and escutcheons, bun feet, interiors painted white; wardrobe 515 x 350 x 192 mm, brass faux-escutcheons, later hanging hook to rear panel, bracket feet, minor chipping to corners, a few cut-outs peeling; each with paper inventory label '6373/44,' c. 1855. Provenance: Nysø Manor, the Stampe family; later, Lerchenborg Collection; sold, The Saxhoff Collection, part two, April 19, 2005, lot 4212. MINIATURE DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE CREATED AND DECORATED BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN WITH FANTASTICAL CUT-OUTS FEATURING FAIRY-TALE AND ORIENTAL MOTIFS. Andersen's cutouts and hand-made books are as much a part of his art as his fairy tales. As he captioned a tableau of dancers in one of his hand-made books, 'Fra H.C. Andersens saks/ sprang et eventyr straks' ('From Andersen's scissors/ A fairy-tale sprang forth'). Andersen had known Jonna Stampe (nee Drewsen) since her birth in 1827, the first granddaughter of his greatest benefactor, Jonas Collin. He had introduced her to her future husband Baron Henrik Stampe, playing matchmaker for the couple despite a profound affection for Henrik. He even wrote a play about their courtship (The Flower of Happiness, October 1844). Andersen was the godfather to their three daughters, and together with August Drewsen, the girls' grandfather, he created three elaborate picture books for them during the 1850s. These pieces of miniature furniture, decorated with Andersen's cutouts featuring exotic motifs both from the fantastic world of fairy tales and from the real world of faraway lands and cultures, likely date from the same period. Andersen as godfather sought to reveal a world outside of the coddled nursery. 'The books constantly make clear to the Stampe children that the world is much bigger and more dangerous but also more exciting and challenging than what a child sees in the adults' drawing room or the road outside the front door of the Nyso manor house' (Andersen, Jens, Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life, 2006). In the same vein, the Andersen cutouts used in the furniture serve to illuminate the vast, exciting and dangerous world that awaits them outside their comfortable upbringing. These miniature furniture pieces, decorated by Andersen with his cutouts, represent an extension of the picture books he produced for the Stampe family, an intensely personal expression of his world view and his unique connection to the family and his godchildren. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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