Normandy Oak Wedding Cabinet

Important Norman wedding cabinet, old in very good quality oak.
It consists of a straight body with a straight amounts wearing a horizontal cornice. This crowning, very worked and richly decorated with a splendid medallion of relief sculptures representing a basket of abundance, filled with roses and grapes surrounded by the two doves of love.
On each is represented, the second part of the eighteenth fable of book I of Jean de la Fontaine located in the first collection of the Fables de la Fontaine, published for the first time in 1668, “the fox and the stork”, she We tell us, the revenge of the stork, which in turn invites the fox at home. The stork prepares delicious meat, but cut into small pieces and put in a long collar vase in turn depriving the meal fox.

It opens on three beautiful shelves and a drawer in perfect condition of conservation.
The lock and the key are also original.

Era: late 18th – beginning XIXth
Dimensions: height: 230cm x Width: 148cm x Depth: 48cm

It was in the 18th century that the Norman wardrobe took the characteristic form that we know, it combines structure and Louis XV repertoire with Louis XVI motifs.

It was at this same time of economic and social stability allowing a certain elevation of the living conditions that it enters into bourgeois and peasant residences.

Even today, it symbolizes with regard to all marriage and creation of the new home.
It was brought to the bride at the same time as her trousseau.

The sculptures were varied. The profession or leisure of the bride’s father could inspire them. What message wanted to send the father of our future bride on this magnificent piece?

The Norman cabinet has both an emotional charge but it also symbolizes family wealth.