Cabinet
manner of Hugues Sambin (1520-1601)
Category
Furniture
Date
1550 - 1600
Materials
Carved walnut, oak and ash
Measurements
122 x 149 cm
Place of origin
France
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127746
Summary
A finely carved walnut cabinet, on an open stand of ash and oak, French, late 16th century. This cabinet is, like NT 1127743, in the manner of late 16th century French furniture after designs by Du Cerceau and other surviving examples by Hugues Sambin (fl. 1520 - 1601). The top is inlaid with geometric shapes above an inverted breakfront cupboard door, finely carved with a military hero amidst military trophies and within a laurel border, flanked to either side by an elongated panel of Renaissance motifs and foliage between fluted columns with Corinthian capitals and foliate-carved lower shafts, the whole raised on six turned rising balusters, also carved with trailing drapes and foliage and topped by giltwood strapwork, the lower open shelf raised on double paw feet centred by a scroll.
Provenance
By descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959.
Makers and roles
manner of Hugues Sambin (1520-1601), cabinetmaker manner of Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau (c.1515 - c.1584), designer