Lot Essay
This cabinet is conceived in the early fase of the Dutch rococo, probably in the 1750s, and is apparent in the rich rocaille carving and the bombé base section. The symmetrical top section however still relates to the more architectural items of furniture, which were conceived in Holland in the first half of the 18th century. The panels of the doors of this cabinet have, for instance, retained their symmetrical rectangular outline, each with a subtle dished domed toprail. At the beginning of the century the double-domed top had been the fashionable cresting of cabinets, whereas from the 1740s a sinuous single serpentine arched cresting bacame popular, above slightly domed doors.
In inventories and advertisements of furniture lotteries this latter type of cabinet was generally called 'boogcabinet', after the serpentine arched top, and was employed throughout the century. Ahlert Gerhart Axsen executed a camber organ with this kind of top as late as 1797. (R.J.Baarsen, De Amsterdamse meubelloterijen, Zwolle, 1992, 1992, p.62)
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In inventories and advertisements of furniture lotteries this latter type of cabinet was generally called 'boogcabinet', after the serpentine arched top, and was employed throughout the century. Ahlert Gerhart Axsen executed a camber organ with this kind of top as late as 1797. (R.J.Baarsen, De Amsterdamse meubelloterijen, Zwolle, 1992, 1992, p.62)
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