A rare German wrought-iron mounted pine hanging cupboard, possibly Tyrolean 16th century

with a crenellated cresting above a door enclosing two shelves on a platform base, the whole with recessed panels and mounted with straps cast with flowerheads

Old marks, chips, scratches and minor losses commensurate with age. There is a vertical construction crack on both sides where the front and back panel join, which is more pronounced towards the back of the right side, which can either be filled or left. There are also some construction cracks at the joints, generally as visible from the photograph. In overall good condition. Rare piece. Recommended.
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Comparative Literature:
A. Feulner, Kunstgeschichte des möbels,  Berlin, 1927, p. 62, plate 51, for a Gothic hanging cupboard, reproduced here in fig.1. described as 15th century, originally in Schloss Annaberg, Tirol Vienna (Sammlung Figdor).
F. Windish-Graetz, Möbel europas, Romanik-Gotik, Vol I, München, 1982, p. 314, fig. 305, for another related Gothic hanging cupboard, in the Maximiliankammer, Schloss Tratzberg, the design of which he illustrates, op. cit., p. 315, fig. 306, reproduced here in fig. 2.