A small cabinet on four torqued legs that end in oblate spheres. The cabinet has two paneled doors and a drawer with two handles. The decoration consists of carved festoons.
The interior has three shelves and a drawer.
Traditionally this type of cabinet was used for a baby’s layette. This is why the cabinet is decorated with pommygranates and grapes that symbolise fruitfulness and roses and sunflowers to represent love and unfaltering devotion.
Literature:
Jet Pijzel-Dommisse, Het Hollandse pronkpoppenhuis, interieur en huishouden in de 17e en 18e eeuw, Amsterdam/Zwolle 2000.
James Hall, Hall’s Iconografisch Handboek, Onderwerpen, symbolen en motieven in de beeldende kunst, in de vertaling door Theo Veenhof, Leiden 1993.
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