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Cabinet on Stand Cabinet
This is a cabinet. It is dated 1675–1700 and we acquired it in 1926. Its medium is oak, walnut, softwood, bone, brass (alloy). It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
The refined construction of this cabinet indicates it was probably made for a sophisticated English client, with a skilled Dutch craftsman providing the marquetry. Specialty craftsmen migrated from France and the Netherlands to London during the last third of the 17th century for political reasons or due to the lure of patronage opportunities.
“Tulipmania” was a craze for tulip bulbs cultivated and exported by the Dutch (originally imported from the Ottoman Empire). The cabinet’s floral marquetry includes striated tulips, the most exotic available, in floral arrangements. Floral arrangements with tulips were the subject of paintings, and engravings, especially in the Low Countries. Prints by the French designer Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (see wall to right, 1938- 58-865), who published works in Amsterdam and was in London in the 1690s, are likely sources for this marquetry.
John Innes Kane and his wife, Annie Schermerhorn Kane, played a major role in forming the collections of the early Cooper Union Museum. Both were members of prominent New York families. Mr. Kane, great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, also served on the museum’s Advisory Council. The Kanes collected in Europe to furnish their Italian Renaissance residence on Fifth Avenue, designed by Stanford White and completed in 1904. The objects donated by the Kanes are generally English and Continental European, from the Renaissance through the 18th century.
This object was
bequest of
Mrs. John Innes Kane.
It is credited Bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
![Print, Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket]](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/44501_0030c4df904829c7_n.jpg "Print, Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket]")
- Print, Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de...
- etching, engraving on off-white laid paper .
- Gift of Norvin Hewitt Green.
- 1938-58-865
- Desk / Cabinet (Belgium)
- various woods, mother-of-pearl, ivory, silk.
- Bequest of Eleanor May Sarton.
- 1996-9-1
- Textile, Fleurs Tropicales et Palmiers (Tropical Flowers and Palms)
- cotton.
- Gift of Josephine Howell.
- 1973-51-105
Our curators have highlighted 9 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Cabinet, from Engineering Temporality series
- welded and burned steel rings.
- Courtesy of Tuomas Markunpoika.
- 9.2015.1
- Book Illustration, Album de meubles boulle, no. 10: contenant modèles style...
- engraving on paper.
- Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
- SIL39088010380160
- Sidewall (Holland)
- leather, stamped, silvered, painted.
- Gift of Eleanor Garnier Hewitt.
- 1903-12-18
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 171.5 x 133 x 55.8cm (67 1/2 x 52 3/8 x 21 15/16in.)
Cite this object as
Cabinet on Stand Cabinet; probably England; oak, walnut, softwood, bone, brass (alloy); H x W x D: 171.5 x 133 x 55.8cm (67 1/2 x 52 3/8 x 21 15/16in.); Bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane; 1926-22-43
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hewitt Sisters Collect.
