Description: Ref: JB609
Rare South German marquetry table cabinet the hinged
doors opening to a compartmentalized interior with nine drawers. The
outside door panels are inlaid with depictions of birds and
flowers. The inside intarsia depicts
quirky architectural landscapes. Lorenz Stoer's Geometria
et Perspectiva, which was published in 1567 inspired intarsia
workers to execute work featuring buildings. They experimented with
perspective often imbuing the designs with a touch of Moorish
fantasy. The intarsia workers were mostly settled in Augsburg.
Augsburg was a cabinet making centre since the beginning of the 14th
C.
Origin: South German; Circa:
1700; Materials:
various woods on a pine carcass.
Size: 44 cm wide by 29.5 cm by 33.5 cm: 17.3
inches wide
by 11.6 inches by 13.2 inches.
Condition: good
overall considering age; see images
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