# Cabinet

- By: anonymous
- Date: c. 1700 - c. 1705
- Medium: roggengranulaat, boxwood, roggenvel, metal, walnut (hardwood), paper, wood (plant material), lacquer (coating), olive (wood), purpleheart (wood), brass (alloy), oak (wood)
- Classification: case furniture
- Dimensions: height 202.5 cm x width 160 cm x depth 54 cm
- Credit line: Gift of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-1979-21--61edfbf43ffc1c664426c1ebfb6a2583)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/bPtSv/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A Dutch cabinetmaker made this fashionable piece of furniture by reusing lacquer from a Japanese chest that had fallen out of fashion. The incorporation of Japanese lacquerwork into Dutch pieces of furniture was a new phenomenon c. 1700, a practice that was subsequently adopted elsewhere in Europe.