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LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A SILVER-MOUNTED EBONIZED AND ROCK CRYSTAL CABINET-ON-STAND
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The galleried top mounted with a staircase enclosing a hinged compartment above an engraved panel inscribed Dass iss vor treu, above a central door flanked by turned pilasters, enclosing a fitted interior with three drawers and a roundel to the reverse engraved with a coat-of-arms and IMP. FERD. II. VIII. SEPTEMBRIS MDCXXII. XIII. MAJUS MDCXXIII. C.P.L.D.O.C. (M W), surrounded by ten panelled drawers with plaques depicting scenes from Ovidius Metamorphose, the sides with carrying-handles shaped as fish-tailed putti, on a stand with turned columns and X-shaped stretcher, on bun feet
167 cm. high x 100 cm. wide x 31 cm. deep
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The galleried top mounted with a staircase enclosing a hinged compartment above an engraved panel inscribed Dass iss vor treu, above a central door flanked by turned pilasters, enclosing a fitted interior with three drawers and a roundel to the reverse engraved with a coat-of-arms and IMP. FERD. II. VIII. SEPTEMBRIS MDCXXII. XIII. MAJUS MDCXXIII. C.P.L.D.O.C. (M W), surrounded by ten panelled drawers with plaques depicting scenes from Ovidius Metamorphose, the sides with carrying-handles shaped as fish-tailed putti, on a stand with turned columns and X-shaped stretcher, on bun feet
167 cm. high x 100 cm. wide x 31 cm. deep
Provenance
Schloss Seebenstein, before 1930.
Vienna, 1930.
Schloss Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 1944.
Vienna, 1930.
Schloss Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 1944.
Literature
D. Syndram, Meisterwerke der Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein. Skulpturen-Kunsthandwerk-Waffen, Vaduz, 1996, pp. 192-195, 297, Nr. 65.
M. Bohr, Die Entwicklung der Kabinettschränke in Florenz, Frankfurt, 1993.
W. Koeppe, Die Lemmers-Danforth Sammlung Wetzlar. Europdische Wohnkultur aus Renaissance und Barock, Heidelberg, 1992, pp. 204-206.
D. Alfter, Die Geschichte des Augsburger Kabinettschranks, Augsburg, 1986.
M. Bohr, Die Entwicklung der Kabinettschränke in Florenz, Frankfurt, 1993.
W. Koeppe, Die Lemmers-Danforth Sammlung Wetzlar. Europdische Wohnkultur aus Renaissance und Barock, Heidelberg, 1992, pp. 204-206.
D. Alfter, Die Geschichte des Augsburger Kabinettschranks, Augsburg, 1986.
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