拍品 301
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A SOUTH GERMAN ASH, FRUITWOOD, BIRCH AND MARQUETRY CABINET
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A SOUTH GERMAN ASH, FRUITWOOD, BIRCH AND MARQUETRY CABINET

THE CABINET LATE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY AUGSBURG OR ULM, RECONSTRUCTED IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A SOUTH GERMAN ASH, FRUITWOOD, BIRCH AND MARQUETRY CABINET
The cabinet late 16th century, probably Augsburg or Ulm, reconstructed in the late 19th century
Inlaid overall with architectural marquetry with ruins, plants and birds and various flowers, the later rectangular moulded cornice above twelve panelled drawers and two doors, each enclosing a panelled interior fitted with a later moulded circular mirror, flanking a central pair of doors, enclosing a fitted and inlaid interior with a further mirror and eight small drawers and eight secret drawers, above two long drawers, the doors with floral marquetry to the reverse, the sides with figures in a landscape with ruins, the lower section with two panelled doors, enclosing a plain interior with one adjustable shelf, the doors inlaid with figures within columnated niches, the moulded frieze and square legs with blind fretwork and pierced angle brackets, on square moulded feet, with a paper label to the back 'ROYAL COUNTY DEPOSIT READING C. & G. AYRES, LTD. NAME: LADY THOMSON-WALKER', reconstructed at the end of the 19th Century, probably in England, the doors and sides of the lower section originally part of the upper section, the interior of the lower section and stand later
The cabinet: 52 in. (132 cm.) high; 44¼ in. (112. 5cm.) wide; 16½in. (42 cm.) deep.
Total size: 76 in. (193 cm.) high; 44¼ in. (112.5 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43.5 cm.) deep
The cabinet: 52 in. (132 cm.) high, 44¼ in. (112. 5cm.) wide, 16½in. (42 cm.) deep.
Total size: 76 in. (193 cm.) high, 44¼ in. (112.5 cm.) wide, 17 in. (43.5 cm.) deep
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拍品專文

The present lot belongs to an extensive group of South German furniture mainly from Swabia, Bavaria and Tirol inlaid with stylised ruins and characteristically elaborate scrollwork defining space and perspective. Such scenes of spectacular ruins were popularised by the Augsburg engravings, entitled Geometria et Perspectiva, published in 1567 by Lorenz Stöer (d. 1620). The most celebrated example of this 'Ruinenarchitektur' marquetry is probably the Wrangelschrank in the Landesmuseum in Münster, which was presented by the Swedish general Carl Gustav Wrangel in 1566 to his daughter Hedwig Eleonore upon her marriage to Ernst Ludwig II of Putbus (L. Möller, Der Wrangelschrank und die verwandten süddeutschen Intasiënmöbel des 16. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1956, pp. 5-14).