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Buffetkast
Also titled Sideboard
Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh
c. 1902
- Medium
- boxwood, Coromandel ebony, copper (metal), gilding (material), purpleheart (wood), padouk (wood), brass (alloy), glass
- Classification
- case furniture
- Dimensions
- depth 21 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with a contribution from the M.E.M. de Girard de Mielet van Coehoorn Bequest
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This substantial sideboard was the most expensive piece of furniture manufactured by the Amsterdam fine art dealer Van Wisselingh & Co for display at the 1904 World’s Fair hosted by St. Louis, Missouri (USA). The company’s head designer, Lion Cachet, favoured exuberant ornamentation, but this was constrained by the sideboard’s sober structure. The copper handles on the drawers are suspended from monkeys’ heads.
