Corner cupboard Corner buffet

Corner cupboard Corner buffet, Corner cupboard made of oak, veneered with pink, purple, maple, satin and boxwood and other types of wood. The cabinet, which rests on two legs, has a corrugated front, topped by a scalloped arch and closed on both sides by a straight pilaster. It is made up of a lower and upper cupboard, both with a semicircular, sliding door. The door of the upper cupboard has three shelves scalloped in at the front, that of the lower case has one. The inside of the cupboard and the doors is painted black and the shelves on the front are gold. The door of the upper cupboard is adorned with marquetry of a medallion with fruits with a ribbon suspended from a ring on which also hangs of oak leaves, which are received in the corners with rings. The ribbon is wrapped with flower twigs, continued as a frame for the medallion. The door of the base cabinet shows a medallion with a vase, hung on a ribbon and surrounded by twigs of flowers. The medallions are placed on four-part pink-wood fields in a frame with slotted corners with rosettes. Fields with illusionistic cube marquetry on either side of the doors, the pilasters are decorated with fields with cannelures. The crown shows crossed palm branches on a foundation of illusionist marquetry. The Netherlands, ca. 1777, garden vase, ornament, medallion, flowers, anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1770 - c. 1780, oak (wood), veneer, maple (wood), rosewood (wood), purpleheart (wood), satinwood (wood), boxwood (hardwood), h 259.5 cm _ w 135.0 cm _ d 85.0 cm w 135.0 cm _ d 79.0 cm l 95.0 cm. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)