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ANTWERP CABINET
WITH THE METAMORPHOSES OF OVID
entirely veneered in ebony and tortoiseshell
in guilloché frames.
It opens into an upper recess with a flap revealing a mirror
revealing a mirror and document storage.
The two-leaf front reveals a richly decorated
richly decorated interior with ten drawers
eight with painted panels and two secrets. The central leaf
opens onto a luxurious little theatre with mirrors
theater with mirrors and nine gilded half-columns
on a checkerboard floor. All painted panels
are attributed to the brothers Cornelis and Jean- Baptiste
Baptiste Huysmans described below.
Antwerp, late 17th century.
Total height: 88 cm - Width: 107.5 cm
Depth 44 cm
(Minor accidents, restorations and missing parts)
On a base adapted in the taste of the later
period. Total height: 168 cm
Description of the scenes depicted
The central scene on the closing door
shows the abduction of Ganymede from Olympus
Olympus by Zeus in the form of an eagle. On the
front of the drawer below, the representation of Byblis can be seen.
of Byblis. Unhappily in love with
and rejected by her brother, she is transformed into a spring
spring through the tears she sheds.
Left-hand drawers (top to bottom):
1. Representation of Cupid, who brings together
Venus and Adonis.
2. After the hunt, Adonis is wounded and Venus
despairs at his side. According to legend,
she turns his blood into Adonis' rose.
3. Cupid tenderly embraces Venus.
4. Myrrha is disguised as a concubine to seduce
seduce her father, King Kinyras.
Right-hand drawers (top to bottom):
1. Atalanta and Hippomenes engage in a contest
which ends with Hippomenes' victory. They
enter into matrimony.
2. Apollo mourns the death of his lover
Hyakinthos. Apollo has accidentally struck
Hyakinthos with his discus, bringing their love
their love prematurely.
3. Cyparissus mistakenly killed the deer he loved
he loved so much. According to legend, he eventually turns,
out of grief and sadness, into a cypress tree
(depending on the source, it may also be a weeping
weeping willow).
4. The sculptor Pygmalion creates a sculpture.
Dazzled by the beauty of the female sculpture
he has created, he falls in love with her.
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WITH THE METAMORPHOSES OF OVID
entirely veneered in ebony and tortoiseshell
in guilloché frames.
It opens into an upper recess with a flap revealing a mirror
revealing a mirror and document storage.
The two-leaf front reveals a richly decorated
richly decorated interior with ten drawers
eight with painted panels and two secrets. The central leaf
opens onto a luxurious little theatre with mirrors
theater with mirrors and nine gilded half-columns
on a checkerboard floor. All painted panels
are attributed to the brothers Cornelis and Jean- Baptiste
Baptiste Huysmans described below.
Antwerp, late 17th century.
Total height: 88 cm - Width: 107.5 cm
Depth 44 cm
(Minor accidents, restorations and missing parts)
On a base adapted in the taste of the later
period. Total height: 168 cm
Description of the scenes depicted
The central scene on the closing door
shows the abduction of Ganymede from Olympus
Olympus by Zeus in the form of an eagle. On the
front of the drawer below, the representation of Byblis can be seen.
of Byblis. Unhappily in love with
and rejected by her brother, she is transformed into a spring
spring through the tears she sheds.
Left-hand drawers (top to bottom):
1. Representation of Cupid, who brings together
Venus and Adonis.
2. After the hunt, Adonis is wounded and Venus
despairs at his side. According to legend,
she turns his blood into Adonis' rose.
3. Cupid tenderly embraces Venus.
4. Myrrha is disguised as a concubine to seduce
seduce her father, King Kinyras.
Right-hand drawers (top to bottom):
1. Atalanta and Hippomenes engage in a contest
which ends with Hippomenes' victory. They
enter into matrimony.
2. Apollo mourns the death of his lover
Hyakinthos. Apollo has accidentally struck
Hyakinthos with his discus, bringing their love
their love prematurely.
3. Cyparissus mistakenly killed the deer he loved
he loved so much. According to legend, he eventually turns,
out of grief and sadness, into a cypress tree
(depending on the source, it may also be a weeping
weeping willow).
4. The sculptor Pygmalion creates a sculpture.
Dazzled by the beauty of the female sculpture
he has created, he falls in love with her.
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