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Lot Essay
The present cabinet with its rich burr-walnut veneers, elegant scrolling ash cross-banding, serpentine drawers and hinged scroll angles can be counted amongst the very best Dutch cabinets of its day. The attribution of this cabinet derives from its relation to the doll's house of Sarah Rothé, now in the Haags Gemeentemuseum, she writes in her notebook about the acquisition of this cabinet:
Den 28 October 1743 Als ook de geschilderde
is een nuuwt Cabinet En porselijn kaamer
tot het Poppehuys= Uyt het Cabinet N=2
=Cieraat tuysgekoome En de Voornaamste
sijnde van glat Wortel Meubelen & Raaretijtjes
hout, en aan Jan die in de drie Cabinette
Meijer Volgens Reekening geweest sijn, die Wij
daar voor betaalt f. 230:- den 11 April 1743
in dit cabinet sijn de in de keysers kroon
beste Vertrekken Uyt gekogt hadden
Het Cabinet N=3 geplaatst
Had it not been for Sara Rothé's notebook and her passion for doll's houses Jan Meijer would have remained anonymous. He was also comissioned, alongside others, to furnish the interior of the doll's house with furniture - made to scale for the interiors.
The cabinet will be sold together with the extensive research notes supporting the attribution, written by the restorer Vincent van Drie after having completed the restoration of the cabinet in 1995.
Den 28 October 1743 Als ook de geschilderde
is een nuuwt Cabinet En porselijn kaamer
tot het Poppehuys= Uyt het Cabinet N=2
=Cieraat tuysgekoome En de Voornaamste
sijnde van glat Wortel Meubelen & Raaretijtjes
hout, en aan Jan die in de drie Cabinette
Meijer Volgens Reekening geweest sijn, die Wij
daar voor betaalt f. 230:- den 11 April 1743
in dit cabinet sijn de in de keysers kroon
beste Vertrekken Uyt gekogt hadden
Het Cabinet N=3 geplaatst
Had it not been for Sara Rothé's notebook and her passion for doll's houses Jan Meijer would have remained anonymous. He was also comissioned, alongside others, to furnish the interior of the doll's house with furniture - made to scale for the interiors.
The cabinet will be sold together with the extensive research notes supporting the attribution, written by the restorer Vincent van Drie after having completed the restoration of the cabinet in 1995.