Mirrored cabinet
Also titled Spiegelkabinet
Dirk Froger (Amsterdam, ca. –1780)
c. 1764
- Medium
- maple (wood), looking glasses, wood (plant material), rosewood (wood), silver (metal), wortelnotenhout, amalgam, oak (wood)
- Classification
- case furniture
- Dimensions
- height 233.8 cm x width 175.5 cm x depth 63.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
The cabinetmaker wanted to give this large, heavy cabinet a Rococo shape, but did not succeed in avoiding straight angles and mouldings. Because the silver is marked with a ‘year letter’, this piece of furniture can be dated rather precisely.
