File:Altenstetter Ebony cabinet.jpg
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[edit]Ebony cabinet.
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Ebony cabinet. |
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| Date | circa 1600-1610 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | silver, gilt and enamel on ebony mounted on pearwood | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 101.6 × 60 × 36 cm (40 × 23.6 × 14.1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Object history |
1600s: commissioned by Sigismund III Vasa, Warsaw after 1654: bequeathed to Visitationist Monastery, Warsaw by Marie Louise Gonzaga |
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| Notes | One of a pair. It was donated by the Queen Marie Louise together with an ebony altar to the newly established church and monastery of the French Order of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Warsaw. Adopted for a tabernacle, adorned with figurines of Roman gods, silver plaques depicting Mars and Venus and personifications of the Four Seasons, winged chimeras, puttos, fruits. The inner side of the doors was decorated with silver enamelled plaques. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | Own work (BurgererSF) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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