Kast 1690-1720 American Painted with large pendants of fruit in niches, this piece represents both a type of cupboardand a form of decoration derived from Dutch prototypes. The ornament, executed in blue-gray, black, and white in a technique known as grisaille, simulates in paint the opulent Baroque carved pendants and festoons popular in the Netherlands during the second half of the seventeenth century on interior woodwork and furniture. Kasten were used for storage of linens, and the pomegranate and quince at the center of the door panelssymbols of fertility and marriagesuggest that this may have been a dowry piece.. Kast 4591
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