Silver cabinet, Jan Adolf Hillebrand, 1844 Silver cabinet whose face is controlled by turning, where all flagged mahogany colonets and pinacles are inlaid with an ivory piping, and further by IJl traceing work, both on a background of mirrors and against a wooden stock, and by the many complicated Robbells. The two cupboard halves tend lightly towards each other. The interior is veneered with various light, drawn types of wood and houses a number of surprises. Next to the drawers in the upper cabinet are secret drawers, and behind the hidden mechanism rotating central style, a whole series of
Silver cabinet, Jan Adolf Hillebrand, 1844 Silver cabinet whose face is controlled by turning, where all flagged mahogany colonets and pinacles are inlaid with an ivory piping, and further by IJl traceing work, both on a background of mirrors and against a wooden stock, and by the many complicated Robbells. The two cupboard halves tend lightly towards each other. The interior is veneered with various light, drawn types of wood and houses a number of surprises. Next to the drawers in the upper cabinet are secret drawers, and behind the hidden mechanism rotating central style, a whole series of drawers and boxes, some secret, is hiding. The two top drawers of the base cabinet have flapping fronts and are decorated as small secretaires, behind which secret drawers again; The lower drawers can only be opened after small, difficult to find pins have been removed. The fronts of the drawers in the interior are decorated with small -scale geometric marquetery. The furniture is marked in three places with name and address Artist (stamped). Leeuwarden oak (wood). mahogany (wood). satin. maple (wood). ivory. looking glasses. inlay (process)
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