Early 1600s Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

A rare early 17th century antique Italian Renaissance carved walnut cabinet, Tuscany, circa 1600. The cabinet had been part of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum San Francisco (now ...

Tall in scale and having a rectangular top with molded edge atop a conforming case housing three drawers over two doors, the paneling throughout not limited to drawers and doors and ...

Wooden trunk from the Queras France of cimbro pine. This piece features a clamping lock and sits on four legs. Peg and forged iron nails construction. This type of chest was often pa...

Trunk/cassone of partially hand carved walnut in high relief from Sienna in Italy. This stunning antique piece features ornate floral and angel carvings and sits on four dragon feet...

Ate Van Apeldoorn 3 piece pine cabinet set. One larger two door cabinet with two smaller open cabinets on a square pine base. Cabinets can be wall mounted and reconfigured to your l...

Italian late Renaissance Marquetry inlaid cassone, 16th/17th century.

A chest of drawers from the 1960s. Very good condition. Dimensions: height 84 cm, width 90 cm, depth. 43 cm.

Danish rosewood dresser Omann Jun Mobelfabrik. Very good condition.     

Danish rosewood chest of drawers Measures: Height 76 cm / width 79 cm / depth 41 cm Very good condition, under renovation.

An Exceptional, Museum Quality, Mannerist, German, Façade Cabinet or Fassadenschrank in three sections The ultimate status symbol and feat of mannerist cabinetmaking, this Fassadenschrank incorporates layers of inlay of different woods prized for their colour and beautifully figured grains to simulate different materials used within a mannerist architectural façade creating a striking, visual display, inviting conversation, curiosity and wonder. The success lies in the virtuoso of the cabinet maker in balancing proportions, combining carving with layers and different shapes of inlaid and banded, intricate ornament, selecting of woods of different colours with finely, figured graining to create a jewel-like, statement piece which, when new, would have been very bright and the contrast between the woods particularly the ebony and fruitwood would have been dramatic and dazzling. It is very unusual to find a piece from this period retaining the original metalware which is of characteristically high quality beautifully chased. This cabinet is too elaborate to be a church piece. It would have been in a substantial household, most likely used by the owner, its religious iconography suggesting that it was placed in a private family room possibly for storing devotional objects as well as clothing which the shelf holes and shelves indicate and was customary. It incorporates a large amount of versatile storage space and is sturdy and usable. The deep, moulded, oak cornice has with a generous, walnut veneered frieze below incorporating striking, geometric inlay. The central and end panels with ash with ebonised and fruitwood banding within an ebonised oak frame with two large panels interposed each with a burr walnut hexagon with ebonised and fruitwood banding and long panels of finely, figured elm with ebonised and fruitwood banding either side. The sides veneered with walnut. The cupboard section with deep, oak moulding above a pair of large, walnut veneered and crossbanded doors incorporating many intricate inlays and carved ornamentation simulating niches or windows with a mannerist facade. Each door is surmounted with a central pediment, above an ebony pillar containing a circular fruitwood panel, one inlaid with the cypher ‘HIS’ and the other ‘MRIA’ with large, oak, scrollwork oak aedicula either side. IHS’ a monogram of the first three letters of Jesus in Greek (ΙΗΣΟΥΣ) is inlaid on the left door roundel. ‘MRIA’ probably a monogram of Mara Regina Angelorum, meaning Mary Queen of Angels’, is inlaid in the left door roundel. The large oak pediment...

Very rare late Elizabethan inlaid oak court cupboard profusely carved and inlaid with sycamore and bog oak with arabesque chip carved frieze over rich c...