Lot Essay
This 'Renaissance' cabinet's marquetry panels of perspectival ruins relate to those popularised by the Augsburg engravings of Lorenz Stoer entitled Geometria et Perspectiva of 1567. The architectural framework, however, is strongly influenced by the publications of Vredeman de Vries, with triumphal arches flanked by herm-bracketed pilasters and ring-tamed lion-masks inlaid with arabesque sphinx and hounds emerging from acanthus-scrolls.
The base section is closely related to the celebrated kas in the Boymans - van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, Holland, published by Professor L. Scheurleer in 'The Dutch and their homes in the Seventeenth Century', Winterthur Conference Report, 1974, p. 24, fig. 8. Professor Scheurleer tentatively attributes this cupboard to the Dutch province of Zeeland, although he concedes that the strong influence and close proximity of Antwerp does not rule out that city as a possible origin for this group.
We are extremely grateful to Dr. R.J. Baarsen of the Rijksmuseum for his help in preparing this catalogue entry
The base section is closely related to the celebrated kas in the Boymans - van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, Holland, published by Professor L. Scheurleer in 'The Dutch and their homes in the Seventeenth Century', Winterthur Conference Report, 1974, p. 24, fig. 8. Professor Scheurleer tentatively attributes this cupboard to the Dutch province of Zeeland, although he concedes that the strong influence and close proximity of Antwerp does not rule out that city as a possible origin for this group.
We are extremely grateful to Dr. R.J. Baarsen of the Rijksmuseum for his help in preparing this catalogue entry