Collector's cabinet Art cabinet whose doors are decorated with marquetry eight-pointed stars and hexagons, executed in oyster pieces. Opened one sees fourteen drawers on which sea battles, in the doors Venus and Amor, under the mirror niche a sidewalk flanked by house facades in marketerie, Kunstkast glued with walnut and burr walnut on an oak core. Both doors, like the side walls, are marketed with eight-pointed stars and hexagons, finished in oyster pieces. When opened, the furniture displays fourteen cedar drawers around a central compartment with doors. The compartments and front plates
Collector's cabinet Art cabinet whose doors are decorated with marquetry eight-pointed stars and hexagons, executed in oyster pieces. Opened one sees fourteen drawers on which sea battles, in the doors Venus and Amor, under the mirror niche a sidewalk flanked by house facades in marketerie, Kunstkast glued with walnut and burr walnut on an oak core. Both doors, like the side walls, are marketed with eight-pointed stars and hexagons, finished in oyster pieces. When opened, the furniture displays fourteen cedar drawers around a central compartment with doors. The compartments and front plates of the drawers are decorated with mirrors showing sea battles and in the doors Venus and Amor. Behind the middle doors a mirror niche, including a sidewalk and flanked by house facades in the market, Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being more mere attribute), story of Cupid and Psyche (Apuleius, 'Metamorphoses' (Golden Ass) IV 28 - VI 25), sailing -ship, sailing-boat, (story of) Hercules (Heracles), (story of) Mars (Ares), (story of) Mercury (Hermes), anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1675 - c. 1685, wood (plant material), oak (wood), walnut (hardwood), ebony (wood), rosewood (wood), glass, ivory, gilding (material), amalgam, engraving, h cm × w cm × d cm
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