Lot Essay
See colour illustration (of the cabinet only)
Details
Antwerp School, circa 1640
An ebony cabinet, with rectangular lifting top and concave frieze, above two cupboard doors, enclosing a fitted interior of ten short drawers with ten painted panels, depicting rocky coastal landscapes and wooded river valleys, one with Saint John the Evangelist, another with Jonah and the Whale, and a cupboard door with a painted panel depicting elegant company on a tree-lined avenue, all by a follower of Frans de Momper II; the lifting top with a painted panel, depicting Lot leaving the burning Sodom and Gomorrah, by a follower of Kerstiaen de Keuninck, above a long drawer, on a plinth base (?), the cabinet 17th century, the ebonized stand with a long drawer and canonized legs probably 19th century
height 65.5 cm
width 71 cm
depth 33 cm
stand height 75.8 cm
An ebony cabinet, with rectangular lifting top and concave frieze, above two cupboard doors, enclosing a fitted interior of ten short drawers with ten painted panels, depicting rocky coastal landscapes and wooded river valleys, one with Saint John the Evangelist, another with Jonah and the Whale, and a cupboard door with a painted panel depicting elegant company on a tree-lined avenue, all by a follower of Frans de Momper II; the lifting top with a painted panel, depicting Lot leaving the burning Sodom and Gomorrah, by a follower of Kerstiaen de Keuninck, above a long drawer, on a plinth base (?), the cabinet 17th century, the ebonized stand with a long drawer and canonized legs probably 19th century
height 65.5 cm
width 71 cm
depth 33 cm
stand height 75.8 cm