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Cabinet
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated c. 1895. Recorded culture or place: France, late 19th Century.
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- Museum title
- Cabinet
- Date
- c. 1895
- Culture / origin
- France, late 19th Century
- Materials and technique
- wood with metal inlays and painted parchment, glass doors and mirror
- Dimensions
- Overall: 224.5 x 141 x 55.3 cm (88 3/8 x 55 1/2 x 21 3/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Carlo Bugatti (Italian, 1856–1940)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1984.177
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
In both form and decoration this cabinet typifies the work of Carlo Bugatti. Asymmetrical, with a tower-like element at one side, there are Islamic-inspired ornaments throughout its design, notably the onion-shaped arches in the upper half of the cabinet. Japanese influence is also evident in the white metal inlays and in the sepia-painted parchment panels. The cabinet displays an extensive vocabulary of other decorative devices, including the partial ebonized frame, the turned wooden ornaments, metal reliefs, mirrored and green glass, and silk tassels. Despite their diversity, Bugatti organized all these elements into a coherent design.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Barry Friedman and Patricia Pastor, New York · CC0
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