Cabinet with gold mounts and relief, ca. 1865–80, German, Aachen, Pine and walnut veneered with ebony; gold, enamel, diamonds


Cabinet with gold mounts and relief, ca. 1865–80, German, Aachen, Pine and walnut veneered with ebony; gold, enamel, diamonds, rubies, Overall (confirmed): 14 11/16 x 17 3/8 x 11 1/8 in. ( x x cm), Woodwork-Furniture, Long considered to be a masterpiece of the late sixteenth century, this cabinet was identified recently as the work of the great nineteenth-century goldsmith Reinhold Vasters, who reused old timber to buidt part of the carcase


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