A Dutch brown-painted table

THIRD QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

细节

A Dutch brown-painted table
Third quarter 17th Century
Carved on all sides, the rectangular specimen marble top above the scaled S-shaped legs headed by ferocious masks, the front and back stretcher carved with auricular motifs, floral-trails and a sunflower, on scrolling foliate-wrapped feet, redecorated
83cm. high x 88cm. wide x 62cm. deep

来源

With A.C. Beeling & Zn., Leeuwarden
Harry Eichhorn, sold at Christie's Amsterdam, 19 December 1996, lot 276 (NLG 27676).

拍品专文

The intricate carved decoration of this 'marriage table' consists of roses and meandering foliage, symbolising Love and Fertility, against a background of bones, scales and tendrils, which are general references to Vanitas. The execution of the carving is closely related to that on a pair of giltwood frames around the portraits of Mr Benjamin Fagel and Jacoba Graswinckel, which were executed by J. van der Stock in The Hague in 1676. The frames, which were almost certainly made by a Hague sculptor, carry the same marital symbolism as the present table.