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Sideboard with four drawers in the middle and two doors on either side, featuring medallions with carved fruit baskets surrounded by black borders
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Sideboard with four drawers in the middle and two doors on either side, featuring medallions with carved fruit baskets surrounded by black borders

anonymous · c. 1900 - c. 1925 · marble (rock); fruitwood; brass (alloy); oak (wood)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Sideboard made of fruitwood. The hexagonal sideboard has beveled corners at the front and rests on eight high legs, of which four at the front, two at the corners and two at the back. The turned high legs, with a brass casing at the bottom, widen towards the top and have a black-painted band at the top. Five sides, except the back, consist of a framework with a panel surrounded by a black-painted border. The front contains two doors with four drawers stacked between them, all edges trimmed with a black-painted border. In the middle of the doors a medallion is attached within which a carved fruit basket. Around it is a black-painted border in a diamond shape. The drawers contain brass rings as handles. On the top of the sideboard a grey veined marble top is inset.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineDressoir met in het midden vier laden waarnaast twee deuren waarop medaillons met daarbinnen een gesneden fruitmand omrand met zwarte biezen. c. 1900 - c. 1925. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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