UNKNOWN CABINETMAKER, Flemish
(active 1st half of the 17th century in Antwerp)

Cabinet

1600-50
Ebony veneer on oak, ivory and tin marquetry, brass mount, 185 x 140 x 52 cm
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

The present richly decorated cabinet with lots of tiny drawers inside to hold money, jewels and other small valuables, is a typical piece of furniture in seventeenth-century Antwerp. It was probably made for a high-born and affluent client. (The carved and turned walnut stand is from the nineteenth century.)




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