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| Keywords: Hughes Sambin - Cabinet - Walters 652.jpg This double cabinet features the combination of architectural elements and relief carving that is characteristic of French furniture of the period The elegant figural designs of the door panels often feature graceful but conventional allegorical figures copied from prints Here for example the symmetrical ovals on the upper doors depict Minerva goddess of wisdom in military affairs and Diana chaste goddess of the hunt Above and below are carved the four elements Fire Earth Air and Water The base of the chest is a replacement between 1570 1600 walnut and marble cm 150 84 5 accession number 65 2 19079 Raoul Heilbronner Paris by purchase Henry Walters Baltimore 1913 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1913 place of origin Dijon France Walters Art Museum license Furniture in the Walters Art Museum Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Hughes Sambin Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Reliefs of Minerva Reliefs of Diana | ||||
