A one-door linen cupboard, simulating a four-door cupboard - Louis XVI - Brass, Mahogany - 1790-1800

This is a very unusually executed narrow and high-style linen cabinet! What initially looks like a four-door cabinet or diaper cabinet turns out to be a one-door cabinet whose key entrance is bent on the left side of the middle line/travers that separates the upper and lower doors. The linen cabinet was manufactured during the (late) Dutch Louis XVI period around 1790-1800. The front look instead of the over-angled side styles already indicates stricter new fashion of the Empire period. The linen cabinet is made of oak & mahogany glued with mahogany leather. Eight sheets of very beautifully flamed mahogany leather have mainly been used, especially at the front, which are mirrored in both a vertical and horizontal way. The single door is equipped with a middle line/travers (horizontal) , two door/ framework (vertical) and a compartment distribution of refined profile frames with open corners to simulate the four doors. The door rotates on its original forged hinges and still has the original lock and brass eye with the working key. Behind the door there are five fixed shelves and together with the bottom creates six compartments. The top of the linen cabinet is decorated with the typical dentil/block frame, a deck with profiled edge and trimmed with an openwork sawn brass gallery placed between deepened corner pieces. The four cast brass key entrances on the door and the ornament on the front are a refined decoration with classic vases and flower and leaf garlands and, like the gallery, still largely have the original gilding! The linen cabinet rests at the front on tapered legs with fluting and a profiled block plinth. The entire linen cabinet has a beautiful deep warm colour and has an authentic wax finish with a beautiful silk gloss.