Biedermeier Display Cabinet of Aristocratic Provenance

Beau­ti­ful, very clear design of a Bie­der­meier dis­play cab­i­net craft­ed in cher­ry wood with two large glass doors. The body, made of spruce wood, is veneered in hon­ey-col­ored cher­ry wood and pol­ished with shellac.

The base, pilasters, and the pro­filed crown of the fur­ni­ture are designed in a very clear form. The inte­ri­or of the fur­ni­ture is new­ly lined with silk moiré and divid­ed by three shelves. A fourth shelf and the cor­re­spond­ing side strips have been sup­plied with the fur­ni­ture.

The back of the dis­play cab­i­net bears a label from the House of Starhem­berg. The House of Starhem­berg is one of the most sig­nif­i­cant and old­est noble fam­i­lies in Aus­tria.

Starhem­berg (for­mer­ly also Lords of Starhem­berg) is the name of a high noble fam­i­ly orig­i­nal­ly from Upper Aus­tria (Steyr, Stein­bach), which belongs to the Apos­tle fam­i­lies and was raised to the rank of Impe­r­i­al Counts in 1643 and to the rank of Impe­r­i­al Princes in 1765.

Fur­ni­ture like this cab­i­net, with a high­ly aris­to­crat­ic prove­nance, is very rarely avail­able for pur­chase on the mar­ket. Note­wor­thy is not only its sig­nif­i­cant prove­nance but also its clear, almost mod­ern-look­ing form.