display cabinet

• Egerer Kabinettschrank

• furniture and woodwork collection

• design: Hans Niklas Haberstumpf, Cheb, 1723
• execution: anonymous, Cheb, 1723

• Hochzeit

• Ebenholz furniert; Reliefmarketerie u. Marketerie aus verschiedenen Hölzern

• height: 289 cm
• width: 189 cm
• depth: 54 cm

• H 1760

• assumption , 1941

• Furniture and Woodwork Collection

• signature (back side) : Johan Nickolaus Habstuckh fecit/1723 kust dischler und mohler in Eger

The cabinet was a typical piece of representative furniture of the 16th–18th centuries. It was made using the costliest materials and most diverse craft techniques. In this case the surface has been covered with ebony veneer and Eger (Cheb) relief marquetry. This cabinet came into the possession of the Emperor Karl VI as a gift from the town of Cheb. Its iconography is also constructed with appropriate reference to this; it has the likenesses of Karl VI and his spouse Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel gracing the top border. On the inside of the cabinet doors there is a portrayal of the four continents and the four world dominating powers. The 16 drawer fronts bear allegorical representations and portrait medallions of the kings and emperors of the House of Hapsburg, from Rudolf I to Joseph I. The cabinet belonged to the furnishings of Schloss Laxenburg until 1941. (Witt-Dörring, Christian)

• MAK-Schausammlung Barock Rokoko Klassizismus

ausgestellt

• display cabinet, Egerer Kabinettschrank, Hans Niklas Haberstumpf, MAK Inv.nr. H 1760

• https://mak-wp.711.at/en/collect/egerer-kabinettschrank_185051

• 14.10.2025