DESIGNED BY JAC. VAN DEN BOSCH, EXECUTED BY 'T BINNENHUIS, AMSTERDAM, THE WOODCARVING POSSIBLY BY A.M. STOLZ, 1917

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'opus 1623', a mahogany and coromandel display cabinet
Designed by Jac. van den Bosch, executed by 't Binnenhuis, Amsterdam, the woodcarving possibly by A.M. Stolz, 1917
The rectangular top with horizontally ribbed frieze above two glass-panelled cupboard doors opening to reveal an interior with shelves, the base with two long drawers, each carved in low relief with a duck within an oval and flanked on either side by a coromandel grip set against a carved stylized petal, the uprights carved at the top with a bearded male head, halfway down with overlapping roundels and linear decoration and with semi-ball decoration on the twofoil feet, with original key
185cm. high x 121 m. wide x 40cm. deep
The key with monogram for 't Binnenhuis

Lot Essay

Cf. Lieske Tibbe e.a., Jac. van den Bosch 1868-1948, Drents Museum Assen, 1987, p. 78, no. 75, for an illustration of an old photograph of an interior in which a similar display cabinet is illustrated in situ

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