a flemish oak, parquetry and marquetry cupboard

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a flemish oak, parquetry and marquetry cupboard
The later rectangular moulded top above a shaped long frieze drawer inlaid with scrolling foliage and fantastic griffins, centred and flanked by lion masks, above as pair of doors with arched panels inlaid with architectural town-scenes, centred and flanked by scrolling volutes headed by draped busts and terminating in claw feet, enclosing a plain interior with a shelf, the inverted breakfront base on a moulded base and on later bun feet, possibly previously with a superstructure, restorations
122cm. high x 143cm. wide x 63cm. deep

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This `Renaissance' cabinet, designed in the romantic antiquarian manner of the 1870s, incorporates a marquetry panel of 16th century style, depicting a woman fetching water within the ruins of a triumphal-arched courtyard. Such scenes were popularised by Augsburg engravings in the manner of those issued by Lorenz Stoer in 1567, entitled Geometria et Perspectiva Patterns for related cabinets are illustated in G. Himmelheber, Deutsche Mobelvorlagen 1800-1900, Munich, 1988, pp.153-4