Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
A Way of Life: the Collection of Barbara & Ernest Kafka
A French Renaissance Verde Green Marble Inlaid Carved Walnut Meuble À Deux Corps, Ile-de-France in the Manner of Jean Goujon, Late 16th Century and Later
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October 17, 07:18 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description
A French Renaissance Verde Green Marble Inlaid Carved Walnut Meuble À Deux Corps, Ile-de-France in the Manner of Jean Goujon, Late 16th Century and Later
With a broken triangular pediment flanking a niche above a pair of paneled cupboard doors carved with oval cartouches incorporating mythological scenes depicting Hermes and Venus, flanked at each side by pilasters, the lower section with two frieze drawers above two paneled doors carved with figures depicting at the right door, Pluto with his three-headed dog Cerberus and at the left door Neptune, all within borders carved with fabulous creatures and overall inlaid with Verde Green marble panels, on later bun feet.
height 6 ft.; width 47 1/2 in.; depth 21 1/2 in.
183 cm; 120 cm; 54 cm
The carving of mythological relief figures and inlaid marble panels depicted on this cabinet are typical of the decorative vocabulary employed by craftsmen of the école de Fontainebleau, dating from the late 16th century. Inspired by the work of the Italian architects and painters such as Rosso and Primaticcio who worked for François I at Fontainebleau in the 1530's and the French ornemanistes and artists who had assimilated these influences in France, such as Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau (1510-1585) and Jean Goujon (1515-1562).