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Details
Antwerp School, circa 1640
An ebony cabinet, with rectangular lifting top and concave frieze, above two panelled cupboard doors, enclosing a fitted interior of eight short drawers and one cupboard door with ten painted panels from the circle of Peeter Snayers, depicting landscapes with villages and cavalry skirmishes, above a long drawer, on a plinth base, the cabinet 17th century, the ebonized stand with spiral-twist legs probably 19th century
height 70 cm
width 81 cm
depth 35.5 cm
stand height 84.5 cm
An ebony cabinet, with rectangular lifting top and concave frieze, above two panelled cupboard doors, enclosing a fitted interior of eight short drawers and one cupboard door with ten painted panels from the circle of Peeter Snayers, depicting landscapes with villages and cavalry skirmishes, above a long drawer, on a plinth base, the cabinet 17th century, the ebonized stand with spiral-twist legs probably 19th century
height 70 cm
width 81 cm
depth 35.5 cm
stand height 84.5 cm
Provenance
Mrs Swalem, Brussels
Exhibited
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Exposition du Paysage Flamand, September-November 1926, no. 100 (or 431)