# Buffetkast

- By: Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh
- Date: c. 1902
- Medium: boxwood, Coromandel ebony, copper (metal), gilding (material), purpleheart (wood), padouk (wood), brass (alloy), glass
- Classification: case furniture
- Dimensions: depth 21 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with a contribution from the M.E.M. de Girard de Mielet van Coehoorn Bequest
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-1977-25--cb0ed5326732a5c3167eee46ee9f8557)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/cTnaP/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.