Cabinet, monté sur support à pilastres tournés, à battants.

A rare Flemish ebony cabinet on stand mounted with embroidered panels. Flanders, presumably Bruges. C. 1600-1670. Blackened pearwood, blackened wood, delicately embroidered panels with silk background depicting animals and flowers. When closed, two doors and a hinged top containing a mirror. When opened, three blocks of drawers. In the centre a door opening depicting an angel trying to pick a rose, with underneath the French slogan 'NVLLE ROSE SANS ESPINES' [not a single rose without thornes]. The drawers contain mirrored embroidered panels depicting a peacock, an eagle, a lion and a basket of flowers. Both side doors contain a mirrored still life with flowers in an amphora. Due to their fragility, very few cabinets with embroidered panels survive. The technique for employing woven fabrics for pictorial decoration was used mainly in England and Flanders, although there are also some surviving examples from Augsburg. We join: M. Callaerts (ed.), Kunst- und Wunderkammer. Een aloude bankierstraditie in de 16de- en 17de eeuw. Antwerpen, 2021. 142 x 77 x 47 cm (gesloten) (173 x 138 x 47 (open)) Lit.: M. Callaerts (ed.), Kunst- und Wunderkammer. Een aloude bankierstraditie in de 16de- en 17de eeuw. Antwerpen, 2021, p. 164-165 (ill.).