A Mainz "cantourgen" cabinet
A Mainz "cantourgen" cabinet
Walnut and burr walnut on conifer corpus, gilt brass mountings, iron locks. Three drawer chest with a veneered apron carved with rocailles on four short scroll supports below. Above it a writing cabinet with six drawers amd two pidgeonholes behind a slanted drop front. The upper section with two doors and curved terminal carved with acanthus, containing ten drawers in six rows surrounding a central comparment. Two secret comparments in the gable. Fine chequerboard marquetry to the front and sides. All edges with carved mouldings, the angles of the upper section adorned with scroll appliques. In carefully restored condition. H 227, W 133.5, D 63 cm.
Second quarter 18th C.
This piece is a fine example of the masterpiece required of all members of the Mainz cabinetmakers' guild as of the mid-1730s.
Provenance
From the descendants of the von Oberndorff family, formerly owned by Alfred von Oberndorff (1870 - 1963).
Literature
Cf. Colsman, Möbel. Gotik bis Jugendstil. Die Sammlung im Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne 1999, cat. No. 143.
Cf. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, 2nd vol. Spätbarock und Rokoko, Munich 1970, p. 307, the master sketch by Franz Brant from 1766, and fig. 1029 ff., the cantourgen by Peter Schuß from 1763.
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A Mainz "cantourgen" cabinet
Walnut and burr walnut on conifer corpus, gilt brass mountings, iron locks. Three drawer chest with a veneered apron carved with rocailles on four short scroll supports below. Above it a writing cabinet with six drawers amd two pidgeonholes behind a slanted drop front. The upper section with two doors and curved terminal carved with acanthus, containing ten drawers in six rows surrounding a central comparment. Two secret comparments in the gable. Fine chequerboard marquetry to the front and sides. All edges with carved mouldings, the angles of the upper section adorned with scroll appliques. In carefully restored condition. H 227, W 133.5, D 63 cm.
Second quarter 18th C.
This piece is a fine example of the masterpiece required of all members of the Mainz cabinetmakers' guild as of the mid-1730s.
Provenance
From the descendants of the von Oberndorff family, formerly owned by Alfred von Oberndorff (1870 - 1963).
Literature
Cf. Colsman, Möbel. Gotik bis Jugendstil. Die Sammlung im Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne 1999, cat. No. 143.
Cf. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, 2nd vol. Spätbarock und Rokoko, Munich 1970, p. 307, the master sketch by Franz Brant from 1766, and fig. 1029 ff., the cantourgen by Peter Schuß from 1763.
