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Cupboard
Also titled Kast
1632
- Medium
- ivory, iron (metal), ebony (wood), satinwood (wood), walnut (hardwood), mother of pearl, kingwood (wood), padouk (wood), rosewood (wood), letterhout, brass (alloy), glass, oak (wood)
- Classification
- case furniture
- Dimensions
- height 198.1 cm x width 162.2 cm x depth 67.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery and through the Rijksmuseum Fonds: H.B. van der Ven, the Hague and A.C. den Drijver
- 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
Herman Doomer, the most famous ebony woodworker in Amsterdam in the early 17th century, played an important role in the development of this new specialty in the city’s furniture-making industry. This cupboard is likely his first spectacular masterpiece. The radiant mother-of-pearl was inlaid by another master craftsman specialized in this technique, Jean Bellequin. He engraved the various fruits, birds, and other ornamental motifs that embellish this cupboard.
