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Jewelry chest
Lost Art-ID
577919
Artist
Title
Jewelry chest
Dating
1550 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Wood (Ebony) ; Metal (Copper) / gilded
Height
34.00 cm
Width
42.50 cm
Depth
28.50 cm
Inventory number
HG 9464
Description
Ebony jewelry chest with copper gilded fittings in cut-out technique (opus interrasile). Simple box shape with profiled base and profiled lid. The box is covered on all sides with red velvet; on the front and on the lid copper-gilt fittings in cut-out technique with scrollwork and grotesque in the manner of Cornelis Bos. On the lid there are also five symmetrically placed relief and gilded cartridges with reverse glass paintings ("Spiegelmalereien"); in the four outer and the center directed colorful birds, in the middle cartouche an owl. The front of the chest can be folded down and behind it is a façade richly decorated with drawers, the framework of which is covered with etched ornamental ribbons. The drawers (made of oak wood) also have copper-gilt fittings over red velvet on their obverse and show variations of the above-described movement with zoomorphic and antropomorphic grotesques. On the sides of the chest each a handle formed from two herms to carry.
Provenance
1941 Brüschwiler, Eugen, Munich, to GNM
Published since
Contact
Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Nürnberg
Kornmarkt 1
90402 Nürnberg
Germany
Postfach 11 95 80
90105 Nürnberg
Germany
Phone
(0911) 13310
Fax
(0911) 1331200
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