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Lot 1020 Dα

A small baroque bone-inlaid walnut cabinet

Auction 1066 - overview Cologne
20.05.2016, 17:00 - Selected Works of Art
Estimate: 22.000 € - 24.000 €
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A small baroque bone-inlaid walnut cabinet

With three drawers below two doors beneath a breakfront cornice. Decorated to the front with carved vine scrolls and dated "1683". H 34.5, W 33, D 11.5 cm.
South German (possibly Nuremberg) or Switzerland, 1683.

Small-scale or miniature furniture has always been popular, but its exact function is often unclear. Some pieces were certainly used by travelling merchants as models or demonstration pieces for full-sized furniture. However, some are also known to have been made purely for recreational reasons as a way to pass the time.

Literature

Illus. in: Himmelheber, Grosse Wunder - kleine Möbel, Kassettenmöbel der Sammlung Grothe, Dettelbach 2005, p. 59 (attributed to Nuremberg / Upper Hesse).
Cf. Koeppe, Die Lemmers-Danforth-Sammlung Wetzlar, Heidelberg 1992, der Nürnberger Schrank no. M 58, illus. p. 184.