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Antique Dutch Marquetry Inlaid Walnut Display Cabinet Vitrine 18th Century
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This is a beautiful antique late 18th Century Dutch walnut and marquetry inlaid display cabinet dating from circa 1780.
The cabinet is superbly inlaid all over with the most wonderful hand cut marquetry of trailing flowers and foliage.
The arch-topped upper section is surmounted by a decorative carved foliate pediment above two astragal glazed doors enclosing serpentine fronted display shelves, with glazed and canted sides.
The bombe' fronted base section is fitted with two half width drawers over two full width drawers and they are flanked by decorative canted side panels both richly inlaid throughout with trailing flowers, cornucopia and birds. The cabinet is elegantly raised on lion's paw feet
It is a lovely cabinet which will display your treasured ornaments beautifully.
Complete with original ormolu handles, working locks and keys.
Condition:
In really excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned, polished and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 222 cm x Width 179 cm x Depth 51 cm
Dimensions in inches:
Height 7 foot, 3 inches x Width 5 foot, 10 inches x Depth 1 foot, 8 inches
Marquetry
is decorative artistry where pieces of material of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers.
The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique.
Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs.
Walnut & Burr Walnut
Walnut is a hard, dense, tight- grained wood that polishes to a very smooth finish. It is a popular and attractive wood whose colour ranges from near white in the sapwood to a dark hew in the heartwood. When dried in a kiln, walnut wood tends to develop a dull brown colour, but when air-dried can become a rich purplish-brown. Because of its colour, hardness and grain, it is a prized furniture and carving wood. Walnut veneer was highly priced and the cost would reflect the ‘fanciness’ of the veneer – the more decorative, then the more expensive and desirable.
Burr walnut refers to the swirling figure present in nearly all walnut when cut and polished, and especially in the wood taken from the base of the tree where it joins the roots. However the true burr is a rare growth on the tree where hundreds of tiny branches have started to grow. Burr walnut produces some of the most complex and beautiful figuring you can find.
Walnut "burrs" were often used to make fabulous furniture. Veneer sliced from walnut burl is one of the most valuable and highly prized by cabinet makers and prestige car manufacturers and is also a favourite material for shotgun stocks.
Our reference: A4160
- Dimensions:Height: 87.41 in (222 cm)Width: 70.48 in (179 cm)Depth: 20.08 in (51 cm)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Period:1780-1789
- Date of Manufacture:circa 1780
- Condition:
- Seller Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:Seller: A41601stDibs: LU950643221962
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