SOUTH GERMAN PINE, WALNUT, ELM, MAPLE, EBONY AND FRUITWOOD PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY CABINET ON STAND, AFTER DESIGNS BY LORENZ STOER
LATE 16TH CENTURY, THE STAND 19TH CENTURY
Auction: Day Two | Thurs 4th Sept at 10am | Lots 403 to 727
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 a long frieze drawer, raised on mock-fluted inlaid legs joined by an undertier and ending on bun feet
Dimensions
91cm wide, 131cm high, 39cm deep
Provenance
The Estate of Peter D R Powell, East Lothian
Purchased Lyon & Turnbull, 14 January, 2015 lot 83: previously, Lingholm, Cumbria, property of Lord & Lady Rochdale
Footnote
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 example, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 25.135.112.