FRANCE - BOURGOGNE, XVIe SIÈCLE TWO-BODY CABINET... Lot 91

FRANCE - BOURGOGNE, XVIe SIÈCLE TWO-BODY CABINET Walnut and iron H. 218 cm, W. 152 cm, D. 67.5 cm Bibliography - Les Cahiers du Musée National de la Renaissance, Hughes Sambin (circa 1520-1601), Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2001 - Jean-Pierre Jacquemart, Hughes Sambin, Architect, Ed. de la Passerelle, Dole, 2019 This cupboard with two bodies without recesses and two drawers in the belt, inspired by Sambinesque terms, also bears witness to the influence of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau through the two monumental columns that decorate its façade. The upper body is marked with three terms: one feminine, one masculine, with a sheath of falling fruit on the uprights and a bearded old man holding fruit in his right hand and the head of an undulating snake in his other hand. It opens with two richly carved leaves. A thin cornice crowns the whole. It is crowned by a pediment where two putti sitting face to face on either side of a leonine mask supporting a tablet sound the trumpet. The lower body, also marked with three terms, has two large, richly carved drawers at the waist, framed by two terms bearing a drapery tied to the chest on a long sheath in two different registers. Beneath the carved leonine mask between the two drawers, the third, shorter term depicts a young man wearing a large pleated mantle holding a fruit in his right hand, and from the left grasping the head of a snake that undulates on the sheath. The two leaves, framed identically to the leaves of the upper body, are nevertheless differently ornamented. On either side of the façade stand two monumental detached columns, decorated at the top with laurel foliage wrapped around them and at the bottom with a briquetry fi guration with two dividing rings. These monumental columns rise from the base of the cabinet to the architrave and end with an Ionic capital.