Credenza
Category
Furniture
Date
1680
Materials
Pine, Walnut
Measurements
990 x 990 x 402 mm
Place of origin
Italy
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Cotehele, Cornwall
NT 347818
Summary
Small cupboard (credenza). According to Victor Chinnery (2004): A small walnut and pine cupboard (credenza), the multi-plank top with mitred corners over a plain top rail above a pair of moulded panelled doors flanked by moulded reserved-panel pilasters, the doors with sculpted bronze handles; raised on a prominent skirt moulding to the base. North Italian, c.1680.
Provenance
According to Victor Chinnery (2004): Date of acquisition unknown. Cupboards of similar form are illustrated in Wohnungskultur und Möbel der Italienischen Renaissance, pub. Julius Hoffman, Stuttgart 1926, pp. 90-100; by Hermann Schmitz in The Encyclopaedia of Furniture, Ernest Benn, London 1926. pp. 85 & 90; and by Franz Windisch-Graetz in ‘Möbel Europas, Vol. II - Renaissance-Manierismus)’, Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1983, pp. 219-220 and 223.