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A Dutch gilt-brass mounted pressed baleen casket by Herman Doomer, circa 1640

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Auction Closed

December 4, 03:22 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

the hinged lid with brass rim and handle, the pressed baleen decorated richly with stylized foliage and a face to the front, signed to the underside 'HD'


16.5cm. high, 22cm. wide, 13cm. deep; 6 1/2in., 8 5/8in., 5 1/8in.

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Offered Christie's, London, Oak, Country Furniture, Folk Art, Works of Art and Sculpture, 1st March 2005, lot 173 (as 'An unusual Continental pressed horn casket, late 17th/early 18th century');

With a British connoisseur.

RELATED LITERATURE

I. H. van Eeghen, “Baertjen Martens en Herman Doomer", Amstelodamum: orgaan van het Genootschap Amstelodamum, vol. 43 (1956), pp. 133-137.

Baarsen, Reinier, Nederlandse Meubelen 1600-1800, Amsterdam, 1993, pp. 36-39.

Baarsen, Reinier, “Herman Doomer, ebony worker in Amsterdam”, The Burlington Magazine, vol.CXXXVIII (138), no.1124 (November 1996), pp.739-749.

Baarsen, Reinier, “Herman Doomer en de Amsterdamse ebbenhoutwerkers”, in Wonen in de Gouden Eeuw, Amsterdam, 2007, pp. 80-109.

Breebaart, Iskander, Gert van Gerwen, “Pressed baleen and fan-shaped ripple mouldings by Herman Doomer”, in the Eleventh International Symposium on Wood and Furniture Conservation, Amsterdam 9-10 November 2012, pp. 62-74.

Kok, Cynthia, Baleen Ebony : Material Mimesis in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Craft Culture (thesis), 2016.

Baarsen, Reinier, Kwab: Ornament as Art in the Age of Rembrandt, exhibition catalogue, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2018.