A pair of South German walnut display cases

MID 18TH CENTURY

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A pair of South German walnut display cases
Mid 18th Century
Each with arched moulded cornice above a pair of glazed doors, enclosing a plain red paper-lined interior with four shelves, on waved supports, the base with waved moulded top banded in cherry and inlaid with shaped panels, above two drawers inlaid with a central roundel within a simulated rectangular panel, on cabriole legs headed by shields and terminating in hoof feet, restorations
237cm. high x 119cm. wide x 54cm. deep (2)

Lot Essay

German 18th Century cabinets made to house a collection of porcelain are extremely rare as the display of porcelain was rarely confined to within one item of furniture. The fashion for a display throughout a room, on wall-brackets and around the chimney, which pinnacled around 1700, continued in Germany throughout the 18th Century, which explains the rarity of porcelain-cabinets destined for this purpose. However, a few examples - beside the present 'Maldeghem' cabinets - are known to exist, such as the extraordinary marquetry vitines by the Kulmbach cabinet-maker Gottfried Uhlemann (d. 1801). (S. Sangl, Spindler?, Furniture History XXVII (1991), p. 31 and figs. 45-50)

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