Cabinet
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1570
Materials
Sycamore, fruitwoods, marquetry, steel lock and hinges
Measurements
54 x 90 x 36.5 cm
Place of origin
Augsburg
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1331924.1
Summary
The cabinet for a sycamore and fruitwood marquetry cabinet on later stand, South German, Augsburg, circa 1570. The profusely inlaid interior depicting buildings and geometric patterns, enclosed by a pair of parquetry doors, the inside of the doors with architectural landscapes centred with a stag, having a pair of central pillared doors with pedimented and arched detail, surrounded by thirteen drawers and four dummy drawers to the upper row, engraved steel lock and steel hinges, the stand with frieze drawer and spiral-twist legs joined by a wavy X-stretcher. In notebook no.4, page 37 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Seraphim 83. German Cabinet of a golden coloured wood, simply inlaid. 13 drawers & 2 cupboards, the doors with Architectural detail, an arch flanked by two smaller ones. The drawers have deep mouldings & elaborate cast plastes to handle knobs. c.1560' Includes dimensions.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Riccardi-Cubitt, Monique, The Art of The Cabinet, Thames and Hudson, 1992, Plate 14 + 15 Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, page 37