Augsburg 17th century silver-gilt mounted ebony table cabinet, by Elias Boscher

An image of Augsburg 17th century silver-gilt mounted ebony Table Cabinet with Florentine pietre dure plaques from the Grand Ducal workshops. Boscher, Elias (1600-1674). Of architectural form, the stepped superstructure fitted with three frieze drawers above a central cupboard door, architectural pediment and inset with a panel depicting a chaffinch on a fruiting bough, flanked by columns of Smaragdite Gabbro with Corinthian capitals flanked by two deep drawers, inset with panels depicting parrots within fruiting boughs, with three further fitted drawers below, the large central cupboard door inset with a panel of a lapis lazuli flower filled urn issuing stems including a carnation, anemone, daffodil and lilies and enclosing an architectural interior, flanked by further Smaragdite Gabbro Ionic columns and three drawers to each side inset with further symmetrical floral panels including tulips, roses, carnations, lilies and bluebells, on shaped bracket feet, each side inset with large central panels of parrots on fruiting boughs, with four further floral panels above and below, the reverse veneered in kingwood, amaranth and stained walnut in geometric stellar designs. The cabinet containing a complex series of fourty-four secret drawers and compartments to the interior. The cabinet is signed in pencil on the underside 'Elias Boscher' and 'gemacht'. The central cabochon mount stamped with the Augsburg town mark and the silversmiths mark of Johann Spitzmacher (active 1655-1678). The front bears the ebony stamp "EBEN" with the pinecone of Augsburg. Height 85 cm, width 84cm, depth 40cm, circa 1660.

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Augsburg 17th century silver-gilt mounted ebony Table Cabinet with Florentine pietre dure plaques from the Grand Ducal workshops. Boscher, Elias (1600-1674). Of architectural form, the stepped superstructure fitted with three frieze drawers above a central cupboard door, architectural pediment and inset with a panel depicting a chaffinch on a fruiting bough, flanked by columns of Smaragdite Gabbro with Corinthian capitals flanked by two deep drawers, inset with panels depicting parrots within fruiting boughs, with three further fitted drawers below, the large central cupboard door inset with a panel of a lapis lazuli flower filled urn issuing stems including a carnation, anemone, daffodil and lilies and enclosing an architectural interior, flanked by further Smaragdite Gabbro Ionic columns and three drawers to each side inset with further symmetrical floral panels including tulips, roses, carnations, lilies and bluebells, on shaped bracket feet, each side inset with large central panels of parrots on fruiting boughs, with four further floral panels above and below, the reverse veneered in kingwood, amaranth and stained walnut in geometric stellar designs. The cabinet containing a complex series of fourty-four secret drawers and compartments to the interior. The cabinet is signed in pencil on the underside 'Elias Boscher' and 'gemacht'. The central cabochon mount stamped with the Augsburg town mark and the silversmiths mark of Johann Spitzmacher (active 1655-1678). The front bears the ebony stamp "EBEN" with the pinecone of Augsburg. Height 85 cm, width 84cm, depth 40cm, circa 1660.

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Accession Number: M.9-2014
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
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Photographer name: Katie Young
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Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1

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