Wall cabinet
Also titled Wandkast
Franz Xaver Fortner (1798–1877)
1844
- Medium
- ivory, tortoise shell, ebony (wood), copper (metal), paper, mother of pearl, tin (metal), rosewood (wood), horn (animal material), brass (alloy), oak (wood)
- Classification
- case furniture
- Dimensions
- height 72.5 cm x width 46.5 cm x width 93 cm x depth 12.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Various stylistic periods are here combined in a single piece of furniture. The inlay technique combining wood with metal revives the technique known as boullework, named after the renowned 17th-century French cabinetmaker André Charles Boulle, while the motifs – cuirasses, lances and banners – reflect the 19th-century’s enthusiasm for the Middle Ages.
