Lot 83
SOUTH GERMAN PINE, WALNUT, ELM, MAPLE, EBONY AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY CABINET ON STAND, AFTER DESIGNS BY LORENZ STOER
LATE 16TH CENTURY, THE STAND LATER
Auction: 14 January 2015 at 11:00 GMT
Description
the rectangular cabinet fitted with an arrangement of moulded drawers and cupboard doors inlaid with town views, metal handles to the sides; the later stand with an long frieze drawer, raised on fluted inlaid legs joined by an undertier and ending on bun feet
Dimensions
91cm wide, 131cm high, 39cm deep
Footnote
Provenance: Lord and Lady Rochdale
Note: Lorenz Stoer's influential book 'Geometria et Perspectiva', first published in 1567. The textless book included eleven wood block prints of studies of artificial ruins filled with geometric solids and was subtitled 'Herein are a few ruined buildings, useful to cabinetmakers working in inlaid wood, and for the special pleasure of many other amateurs, arranged and presented by Lorenz Stoer, painter and citizen of Augsburg'. Originally the cabinet would have had a fall front opening to reveal the elaborate inlay on the interior drawer fronts. For a comparable cabinet, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 25.135.112.