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Lot 541 Dα

A Lower Rhenish Baroque oak cabinet

Auction 1086 - overview Cologne
19.05.2017, 14:00 - Decorative Arts II
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
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A Lower Rhenish Baroque oak cabinet

Comprising two-doored lower section and recessed upper section with protruding gable supported by two columns. Carved to the upper doors with depictions of Apostles and the Virgin on the Crescent. The drawers in the middle section and the pad-feet later additions. Later ammendments and additions, the rings in the jaws of the lion mascarons lacking. H 186, W 130, D 65 cm.
Possibly Cologne, 2nd quarter 17th C. with ammendments.

These carved cabinets were made slightly later than the inlaid variety. The pilasters formed as Herms are a borrowing from the Netherlands, and the cross-form mouldings of the lower section are a further Netherlandish motif inspired by hispano-moresque ornament.

We would like to thank Dr. Ursula Weber-Woelk and Andreas Krupa for their kind support in cataloguing this piece.

Provenance

Calvarienberg Abbey, Ahrweiler.

Literature

Cf. this type in: Colsman, Möbel, Gotik bis Jugendstil, Cologne, 1999, p.176 ff.
Cf. for the depiction of the evangelists: Hoppe, Geschnitzte Kölner Überbauschränke, Bonn, 1999, p. 175.