FLANDRES Vers 1500
FLANDRES Vers 1500
RARE GOTHIC CABINET Around 1500
Oak and wrought iron
H. 179 cm, W. 176 cm, D. 68 cm
Restorations of use and maintenance
Bibliography
Jacques Thirion, Le Mobilier du Moyen-Âge et de la Renaissance en France, Ed. Faton, Dijon, 1998
Jacqueline Boccador, Le Mobilier français du Moyen-Âge à la Renaissance, Ed. Monelle Hayot, St Just en Chaussée, 1988
During the medieval period, the cupboard remains a particularly rare piece of furniture.
It is most often found in sacristies (fig.1), used to store liturgical objects and vestments or relics, or inside communal buildings where they kept archives and important documents.
In France, the oldest preserved model is the cupboard of Aubazine (Corrèze), dated from the beginning of the 13th century. It is at this date that the furniture began to evolve. The huchiers then tried to gain independence from the carpenters. They then become carpenters of small cognée. From then on, they begin to apply on their furniture some ornaments making their achievements as decorative as functional elements.
Still medieval in conception, the rigorous architecture of the cabinet presented here is a solid frame assembled with mortise and tenon joints, the frame of which is underlined by a moulded cornice. It rests on straight legs which, as was customary at the time, are an extension of the lateral uprights of the frame.
The front of the cabinet is divided into a low register with two wings and a high register with two wings. The balance is created by these structural elements. In the high register, crossbars and uprights draw a cruciform pattern cutting the open space with the decoration in eight panels with napkin folds shaded in the uprights.
The small column vertically separating the leaves also receives a typically Gothic decoration: diamond-shaped fishnet and a motif of scales are finely sculpted.
This is one of the few examples of a Gothic cupboard that we have survived.
Its proportions, the fine lines of the napkin folds and the quality of the assembly methods make it a piece of high quality furniture. Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.
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FLANDRES Vers 1500
RARE GOTHIC CABINET Around 1500
Oak and wrought iron
H. 179 cm, W. 176 cm, D. 68 cm
Restorations of use and maintenance
Bibliography
Jacques Thirion, Le Mobilier du Moyen-Âge et de la Renaissance en France, Ed. Faton, Dijon, 1998
Jacqueline Boccador, Le Mobilier français du Moyen-Âge à la Renaissance, Ed. Monelle Hayot, St Just en Chaussée, 1988
During the medieval period, the cupboard remains a particularly rare piece of furniture.
It is most often found in sacristies (fig.1), used to store liturgical objects and vestments or relics, or inside communal buildings where they kept archives and important documents.
In France, the oldest preserved model is the cupboard of Aubazine (Corrèze), dated from the beginning of the 13th century. It is at this date that the furniture began to evolve. The huchiers then tried to gain independence from the carpenters. They then become carpenters of small cognée. From then on, they begin to apply on their furniture some ornaments making their achievements as decorative as functional elements.
Still medieval in conception, the rigorous architecture of the cabinet presented here is a solid frame assembled with mortise and tenon joints, the frame of which is underlined by a moulded cornice. It rests on straight legs which, as was customary at the time, are an extension of the lateral uprights of the frame.
The front of the cabinet is divided into a low register with two wings and a high register with two wings. The balance is created by these structural elements. In the high register, crossbars and uprights draw a cruciform pattern cutting the open space with the decoration in eight panels with napkin folds shaded in the uprights.
The small column vertically separating the leaves also receives a typically Gothic decoration: diamond-shaped fishnet and a motif of scales are finely sculpted.
This is one of the few examples of a Gothic cupboard that we have survived.
Its proportions, the fine lines of the napkin folds and the quality of the assembly methods make it a piece of high quality furniture. Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.
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