jewelery box, Anonymous, 17th century, ebony, velor, mirror glass, brass, silver, General: 27.5 x 29.5 x 21cm 275 x 295 x 210mm, allegory, Jewelery box or cabinet of curiosities with hinged lid and swinging door. The box is rectangular in shape, standing on a profiled plinth on spherical legs. The walls are made of composite profiled panels with pilasters at the corners. The highly profiled high cushion-shaped lid is attached with brass-cut open hinges. The front is lowerable. The interior consists of five drawers with two arcades in the middle bordered by three Tuscan colonets and an extendable shelf covered with red velvet and a mirror in the back. Two drawers on either side of the arcades and a drawer at the bottom across the entire width of the box. At the top two drawers on the compartment under the lid. The drawers have profiled ebony edges and the panels are decorated with silver engraved panels with arabesques, leaf and flower motifs. Inside cushions with red velor. In the panel on the inside of the door, a depiction of the life of Saint John is depicted in three scenes in arcade arches crowned with putti cups in the fins. Around it a band with arabesques. On the inside of the lid are three panels with a mirror and lings in the middle and an arcade on the right surrounded by rabesks, squirrels and fruit motifs and crowned with putti cups. In the arcade on the left Peace with a dove on the crescent moon and the arcade on the right Suffering with a chalice and a cross. Both depicted with a colonade in the background. The key is missing, 1939.

jewelery box, Anonymous, 17th century, ebony, velor, mirror glass, brass, silver, General: 27.5 x 29.5 x 21cm 275 x 295 x 210mm, allegory, Jewelery box or cabinet of curiosities with hinged lid and swinging door. The box is rectangular in shape, standing on a profiled plinth on spherical legs. The walls are made of composite profiled panels with pilasters at the corners. The highly profiled high cushion-shaped lid is attached with brass-cut open hinges. The front is lowerable. The interior consists of five drawers with two arcades in the middle bordered by three Tuscan colonets and an extendable shelf covered with red velvet and a mirror in the back. Two drawers on either side of the arcades and a drawer at the bottom across the entire width of the box. At the top two drawers on the compartment under the lid. The drawers have profiled ebony edges and the panels are decorated with silver engraved panels with arabesques, leaf and flower motifs. Inside cushions with red velor. In the panel on the inside of the door, a depiction of the life of Saint John is depicted in three scenes in arcade arches crowned with putti cups in the fins. Around it a band with arabesques. On the inside of the lid are three panels with a mirror and lings in the middle and an arcade on the right surrounded by rabesks, squirrels and fruit motifs and crowned with putti cups. In the arcade on the left Peace with a dove on the crescent moon and the arcade on the right Suffering with a chalice and a cross. Both depicted with a colonade in the background. The key is missing, 1939

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