A COROMANDEL DISPLAY-CABINET, by the firm of N. Legrand, Amsterdam, shaped moulded top carved at the angles with a stylized dragon mask, above two rectangular glazed cupboard doors with bracket-top, each door flanked by a rectangular section stile carved with linear decoration and terminating halfway down in a carved stylized dragon mask, above a protruding base with two rectangular glazed cupboard doors above a rectangular shelf and two draw out display shelves, each set with two knob-handles, the cupboard lined with gold paper impressed with stylized floral decoration and fitted with shelves with gilded rims, with two keys stamped 't Woonhuys Amsterdam (paper damaged in some places, keys not original)

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A COROMANDEL DISPLAY-CABINET, by the firm of N. Legrand, Amsterdam, shaped moulded top carved at the angles with a stylized dragon mask, above two rectangular glazed cupboard doors with bracket-top, each door flanked by a rectangular section stile carved with linear decoration and terminating halfway down in a carved stylized dragon mask, above a protruding base with two rectangular glazed cupboard doors above a rectangular shelf and two draw out display shelves, each set with two knob-handles, the cupboard lined with gold paper impressed with stylized floral decoration and fitted with shelves with gilded rims, with two keys stamped 't Woonhuys Amsterdam (paper damaged in some places, keys not original)
258 cm high x 140 cm wide x 45 cm deep

Provenance

Crone Family

Lot Essay

This display cabinet was designed for the Crone Family for their house on the Herengracht, Amsterdam in the last decade of the 19th Century. From 1909 to 1945 the cabinet was, together with its two smaller components, part of the interior of their house on the Hobbemastraat in Amsterdam

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