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A South German iron-mounted walnut, sycamore and fruitwood marquetry table cabinet, second half...
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Description
A South German iron-mounted walnut, sycamore and fruitwood marquetry table cabinet, second half 16th century, inlaid throughout with architectural landscapes depicting buildings and ruins within foliate borders to the sides, reverse and front, the hinged fall-front enclosing seven drawers and one cupboard door with similar decoration, the reverse of the fall front and top decorated with musical instruments, with twin carrying handles and scrolling foliate escutcheon, and key, 33cm high, 45cm wide, 29cm deep
Lot Footnotes
Note: This form of small and portable table-cabinet which was used as a means of storing valuables was one of the most prestigious pieces of storage furniture during the 16th century. The front drops down on hinges to form a surface for writing or the examination of whatever was kept in the cabinet’s many drawers and compartments – documents, ‘collectables’ or other valuables.
Such cabinets were a speciality of the south German city of Augsburg and Nuremburg and belong to a group of South German furniture mainly from Swabia, Bavaria and Tyrol inlaid with stylised ruins and elaborate scrollwork defining space and perspective.
The most prominent aspect of its design is the marquetry decoration (originally much brighter in colour) of architectural ruins, which reflect contemporary interest in the rediscovery of the classical world.
Such cabinets must have seemed miracles of craftsmanship and ingenuity when it was made, at a time when in most countries only plain furniture made of one type of wood was known. The possession of a marquetry cabinet marked the owner as a well to do and sophisticated patron of the arts, particularly as such cabinets were for the owner’s personal use.
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