Larch as a Construction Material in Flemish Cabinetmaking of the Seventeenth Century: Dendrochronological Survey of a Larch Construction Panel of Flemish Metamorphoses Curio Cabinet RA 408 in the State Chateau Rájec nad Svitavou (Czech Republic)

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43410%2F24%3A43923406" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43410/24:43923406 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2023.2201092" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2023.2201092</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2023.2201092" target="_blank" >10.1080/00393630.2023.2201092</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Larch as a Construction Material in Flemish Cabinetmaking of the Seventeenth Century: Dendrochronological Survey of a Larch Construction Panel of Flemish Metamorphoses Curio Cabinet RA 408 in the State Chateau Rájec nad Svitavou (Czech Republic)

Original language description

In the Rájec nad Svitavou chateau there is a Flemish cabinet from the period from about 1650-1680 decorated with scenes from Ovid&apos;s metamorphoses. The cabinet comes from the former collections of the house of Salm. The provenance is attributed to one of the suppliers of the Forchondt family art dealership. This cabinet was the subject of a conservation treatment in 2020. During this intervention, various surveys were completed. One of them was a dendrochronological survey of the larch construction panel found at the bottom of the cabinet. The presence of coniferous wood in the structure, together with the found inscription from 1845, called into question the authenticity of the cabinet. Dendrochronology proved that the larch panel was entirely contemporary and came from the French Maritime Alps. The last datable annual ring from an annual ring series of over 200 years was dated back to 1651. The cabinet case is certainly not the product of nineteenth century repairs in Prague. The result of dendrochronology is clear evidence of the use of imported softwoods in the manufacture of cabinets in Antwerp. The material was probably imported for the manufacturing of ships for the Dutch fleet, and the leftovers were sold on the local market. It can be assumed that more examples like this will appear in the future and should not be surprising.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studies in Conservation

ISSN

0039-3630

e-ISSN

2047-0584

Volume of the periodical

69

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

253-260

UT code for WoS article

000975304800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85153595868