MID 17TH CENTURY, THE SUPERSTRUCTURE ADAPTED

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A DUTCH CARVED OAK CUPBOARD
MID 17TH CENTURY, THE SUPERSTRUCTURE ADAPTED
Carved overall with scrolling foliage and figures, the frieze and doors carved and inscribed with eight Virtues and Vices, the moulded oversailing rectangular cornice above a frieze flanked and divided by human masks, above three herm figures and a recessed section with two panelled cupboard doors, the lower section with two conforming panelled doors flanked and divided by fluted columns headed by composite capitals, the base with two panelled drawers flanked and divided by lion masks, on moulded plinth and flattened ball feet
203 cm. high x 157 cm. wide x 71 cm. deep

Provenance

With van Aalst, Breda, 1977.

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Lot Essay

A comparable cupboard, with recessed superstructure, herm figures, fluted pilasters and lion masks, is illustrated in K. Sluyterman, Huisraad en Binnenhuis in Nederland in Vroegere Eeuwen, 's-Gravenhage, 1947, p. 164, fig. 222.

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