Lot Essay
This cupboard demonstrates the fashion for restained 'architectural' furniture in the Northern Netherlands in the early 17th century, which is still reminiscent of wall-panellings. A related panelling in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, with similar tapering pilasters and ebony roundels, is illustrated in the Catalogus van meubelen en betimmeringen, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1952, no.33, fig. 29.
Certain decorative features, like the characteristic scrolling strapwork cartouches 'nailed' by ebony studs, relate to the furniture designs of Paul Vredeman de Vries, which were published in 1630 in Amsterdam. (P.Thornton, Seventeenth Century Interior Decoration in England, France and Holland, London and New Haven, 1978, figs. 91-92, pp. 94-95)
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Certain decorative features, like the characteristic scrolling strapwork cartouches 'nailed' by ebony studs, relate to the furniture designs of Paul Vredeman de Vries, which were published in 1630 in Amsterdam. (P.Thornton, Seventeenth Century Interior Decoration in England, France and Holland, London and New Haven, 1978, figs. 91-92, pp. 94-95)
See illustration