Set of five doors corresponding to a German cabinet, ca. 1580.

Set of five doors corresponding to a German cabinet, ca. 1580.
Wood and marquetry.
Exhibits wear consistent with age and use with some flaws.
Measurements: 63.5 x 58 x 2 cm (two of them); 64 x 58 x 2 cm (two of them) and 29.5 x 36 x 3.5 cm (one of them).

The excellent quality of these cabinet doors, with their laborious marquetry work, leads us to link them to the cabinetmakers' workshops of the aristocracy who settled in Germany around 1580. Their style places them chronologically in the early baroque or late renaissance. As with other furniture of the period, it is possible that for the architectures the cabinetmaker was inspired by the drawings and engravings of Lorenz Stöer (Nurenberg, ca. 1537-1621), a prolific engraver and painter focused on geometric forms and perspective, whose works had a significant impact on the craftsmen of the time. Thus, in the doors, the urban landscape that opens behind arches also identifies the interest in the play of perspective (as did Stöer). The transfer in marquetry of the drawings of this engraver shows a great technical mastery and high artistic value.