Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

Furniture

CABINETS, CASKETS,

AND COMMODES

393. Display Cabinet (Kabinettschrank)
     Augsburg, circa 1620-1630
     Ebony, pearwood, oak, boxwood, walnut,
     chestnut, marble, ivory, semiprecious
     stones, tortoiseshell, snakeskin, enamel,
     and miniature painting
     Height: 2 ft. 4% in. (73 cm); Width:
     ι ft. 10Ψ16 in. (58 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 11% in.
     (59 cm)
     Accession number 89.DA. 28
     PROVENANCE
     Private collection, Sweden; [J. Kugel, Paris,
     since the mid-1970s].
     EXHIBITIONS
     Paris, XIVe Biennale des Antiquaires,
     September 22-October 9,1988.
     BIBLIOGRAPHY
     Dieter Alfter, Die Geschichte des Augsburger
     Kabinettschranks (Augsburg, 1986), no. 23,
     pp. 69-70, pis. 56-58; "Acquisitions/1989,"
     GettyMusJiS (1990), no. 58, pp. 196-197,
     illus.; Handbook 1991, p. 213, illus.

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226 GERMAN CABINETS