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Sideboard
Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh, c. 1902
This substantial sideboard was the most expensive piece of furniture manufactured by the Amsterdam fine art dealer Van Wisselingh & Co for display at the 1904 World’s Fair hosted by St. Louis, Missouri (USA). The company’s head designer, Lion Cachet, favoured exuberant ornamentation, but this was constrained by the sideboard’s sober structure. The copper handles on the drawers are suspended from monkeys’ heads.
- Artwork typefurniture, case furniture, buffet
- Object numberBK-1977-25
- Dimensionsdepth 58 cm, height 69.5 cm x width 83.5 cm x depth 18 cm, height 285 cm x width 306 cm x depth 79 cm, height 67.5 cm x width 61 cm x depth 18 cm, depth 21 cm, height 67.5 cm x width 84.5 cm x depth 18 cm
- Physical characteristicscoromandelhout versierd met purperharthout, padoekhout, palmhout, koper en messing