Pick of the Week: Cabinet stands tall as Flemish highlight
When this cabinet on stand appeared in the inventory of a Gloucestershire home in the 1920s it was described simply as ‘An old Italian Cabinet of ebony and Tortoiseshell’. In fact, it is Flemish rather than Italian and was probably made in Antwerp in the first half of the 17th century.
Antwerp was the leading centre for the manufacture of cabinets such as this. It was supplied with …