ATTRIBUTED TO LOUIS MAJORELLE, NANCY, CIRCA 1890

This cabinet bears an inventory mark for Lange Voorhout Palace in The Hague, and could possibly have been part of a large group of works King Willem III ordered in the late 1880s from the workshop of celebrated cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle in Nancy. Majorelle was one of the most influential furniture makers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the scrolling cresting and fine detailing of the present lot foretell the celebrated works of art he created in the subsequent decades as one of the leaders of the Art Nouveau movement. The present cabinet is visible in a photograph dated circa 1920 of the Louis XV Drawing Room at the Noordeinde Palace, suggesting it was moved with some frequency and at the disposal of several successive generations of the Dutch Royal Family.