a dutch oak cupboard "keeftkast"

17TH CENTURY

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a dutch oak cupboard "keeftkast"
17th Century
The rectangular moulded overhanging cornice above a carvetto frieze and a pair of doors with panelled arches carved with birds and flowers, flanked and divided by spirally-turned columns carved with birds and meandering vine, enclosing a part-fitted interior with two fretwork-carved doors above a shelf, above two base-drawers carved with scrolling foliage and on bun feet, restorations and replacements
181cm. high x 167cm. wide x 60cm. deep

拍品專文

This cupboard, richly carved with foliage and small birds, is usually known as a 'keeftkast', and was probably made in the Northern province of Friesland. The name of this type of cupboard is traditionally associated with the German Käfig or 'cage' and with 'kievit, the Dutch translation of 'peewit' or 'lapwing'. However, it is more likely to derive from the 'kevie', which means cupboard in 17th century Dutch.
A similar Keeftkast, previously in the collection of Jhr. Speelman in Huis de Wittenbrug in Wassenaar is illustrated in C.H. de Jonge, Holländische Möbel und Raumkunst von 1650-1780, The Hague, 1922, p.100.

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