Collector’s cabinet
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- height 167 cm x width 121.5 cm x depth 51.5 cm
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum
- Image provider
- rijksmuseum
- License
- Public Domain
- Credit
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Art Genome Taxonomy
11 tags
Visual Qualities
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Symmetrical Visual · 99%
The frontal elevation is organized around a central stile, with paired doors, matching fittings, and balanced supports and feet on either side.
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Patterns Visual · 99%
The doors and lower front section are covered with dense, repeated circular and swirling figured-wood motifs.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 95%
The cabinet combines elaborate figured surfaces, contrasting horizontal and vertical framing, decorative fittings, and heavily turned supports.
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Curvilinear Forms Visual · 96%
Circular grain motifs and twisted spiral supports create a sustained vocabulary of curved and rounded forms within the rectilinear cabinet structure.
Time Periods
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17th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the cabinet to approximately 1675–1685.
Geographic Regions
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Dutch Art Metadata · 98%
The catalog gives the place of origin as the Netherlands.
Materials
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Wood Both · 99%
The cabinet is visibly dominated by wood surfaces and turned wooden supports; the catalog specifies oak combined with olive, ebony, boxwood, and purpleheart.
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Bone Metadata · 92%
The catalog medium explicitly lists bone among the materials used in the cabinet; this material is not independently distinguishable in the supplied frontal image.
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Glass as Material Metadata · 90%
The catalog medium explicitly lists engraved mirrors; mirror or glass elements are not clearly identifiable in the supplied frontal image.
Furniture and Lighting
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Furniture Both · 99%
The object is visibly a substantial freestanding cabinet, and the catalog classifies it as case furniture, collector’s cabinet, and furniture.
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Storage Both · 98%
The paired doors and enclosed cabinet form indicate storage, while the catalog identifies the object specifically as a collector’s cabinet.
Source & rights
anonymous. Collector’s cabinet. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.