A GERMAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY CABINET

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A GERMAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY CABINET
LATE 16TH EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Inlaid overall with scrolling arabesques and maiden's masks suspending scrolling flowers and vases, the rectangular hinged top above two doors enclosing seven short and one long drawer with panelled fronts flanking a central door with arched panel, below three simulated drawers, on a later walnut stand with frieze with pearled border, on panelled cabriole legs terminating in scrolled feet and joined by a curved H-shaped stretcher with central circular platform, losses and restorations to the marquetry, the door previously with a locking mechanism, previously with carrying-handles, restorations to the hinged top
25in. (63cm.) wide; 19¼in. (49cm.) high; 13¾in. (35cm.) deep, without stand
The stand: 25½in. (65cm.) high

Lot Essay

The cabinet interior's triumphal-arched tabernacle compartment is inlaid with flowered arabesques framing a fruit-filled vase between squirrels and beneath a baldacchino while butterflies and satyr-masks embellish the flower-inlaid drawers. The interior of the cabinet doors are similarly inlaid with sphynx and vases attended by monkeys. Closely related patterns were issued in Strasbourg by Johann Jakob Ebelmann and the cabinet-maker Jakob Guckeisen in their Schweyfbuch, 1598 (S. Jervis, Printed Furniture Designs Before 1650, Leeds, 1974, fig. 212)

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