An inlaid wooden table cabinet

AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1580-1600

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An inlaid wooden table cabinet
Augsburg, circa 1580-1600

The top and sides all with banded decoration; with a drop-front inlaid with a design of foliage and musical instruments opening to reveal eight drawers, each inlaid with designs of imaginary cityscapes.
Minor losses, damages and worming.
10¼ x 8 1/8 x 7.1.8 in. (26 x 20.6 x 18.1 cm.)

Lot Essay

This table cabinet corresponds extremely closely with a larger example sold in these Rooms on 19 May 1993, lot 187 (£25,000), as well as an example discussed in The Art of the Cabinet (M. Riccardi-Cubitt, London, 1992, p. 173, figs. 14-15). All three are inlaid with virtually identical views of architectural ruins, interspersed with distinctive sprigs of grass.

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