BRAUNSCHWEIG, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GERMAN EBONY AND IVORY-INLAID WALNUT AND AMARANTH CABINET
Braunschweig, second quarter 18th Century
Inlaid overall with interlaced strapwork, the arched moulded shaped cornice above two serpentine doors, inlaid to the reverse, the back of the lockplate engraved with an eagel surmounted by a canopy and flanked by two putti on scrolling foliate rockwork, enclosing a fitted interior with seven variously-sized drawers and a richly inlaid central door with acollé coat-of-arms, enclosing an inlaid interior and six graduated short drawers, above a frieze-drawer and a sliding green-lined writing-surface, above four panelled long drawers, on a shaped base, with two paper inventory labels one 'FAMILIENSTIFTUNG V. WINTERFELD WO: NR: 00001 EIGENTÜMER: GEORG LEVIN V. WINTERFELD-NIEDEN 1982' the other with the same text but 'NR:00002', another paper label 'D 1059-1' the feet possibly later, the drawers lined throughout with red and yellow paper, possibly original
98½ in. (250 cm.) high; 58 in. (147,5 cm.) wide; 31 in. (79 cm.) deep

来源

Possibly supplied to Carl Gustav von Maltzahn, Teschow but most probably to his son
Gustav Adolf von Maltzahn, Teschow (d. 1766) and by descent to
Hans Gustav von Maltzahn, Vanselow (d. 1829) and by descent to
Heinrich von Eickstedt, Eickstedtswalde (d. 1869) and by descent to
Vigivenz Jachim Valentin Dubslaff von Eickstedt, Eickstedtswalde (d. 1897) and by descent to the present owner

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

This magnificent cabinet is a masterpiece of the Braunschweig Court style. It is richly inlaid with geometric ivory and ebony strapwork cartouches, and embellished with effaced acollé coat-of-arms in the interior and was almost certainly executed on the occasion of a marriage, possibly the 1729 marriage of Gustav Adolf von Maltzahn (1698-1766) and Christiane Maria von Grabow (1695-1767).

The marquetry decoration is closely related to that of an Aufsatzschrank in the Landesmuseum in Oldenburg, executed in Braunschweig circa 1720, which has a similar intricate marquetry panel in the door (H. Kreisel, G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, vol.II, fig. 94).

The design for the marquetry may derive from an engraving by the Nürnberg architect and designer Paul Decker d. Ä (1677-1713), whose rigorously geometric designs reveal his mathematical training in Nürnberg between 1695 and 1699. Decker was appointed Hofarchitekt to Pfalzgraf Theodor zu Sulzbach in 1708 and to Margrave Georg Wilhelm zu Brandenburg-Bayreuth in 1710 (R. Berliner, Ornamentale Vorlageblätter, Leipzig, 1926, p. 84 and fig. 337).