Cupboard - Oak

Brabant five-door cabinet, also called a milk cabinet, but that is a romanticized term.

Authentic furniture, it appeared in both Belgian Brabant and Dutch North Brabant.
What characterizes it are the proportions, wider than it is tall.

Beautiful light blond oak that is quarter-sawn.
In the panels of the doors we see a fine division with inlaid beading.
This treatment only came into use at the end of the 17th century.
Therefore I date the cabinet to the late 17th/early 18th century.
320 - 350 years old, and nicely preserved.

The hinges have been replaced at some point - in the detail photos I have examples where you can still see the imprint of the original 17th-century hinges.
Those black spots with the hole in the middle were the shape of the wrought iron - it ran diagonally through the wood to come out at the front to the outside.
There you could see them as sturdy 'short' jaw hinges.
This method is seen only on Brabant cabinets.
I once had another 16th-century Brabant cabinet where these hinges were still in place.

Also a nice feature is that the fittings with the lock plate and pear-shaped pulls are tin-plated (original).
Those pear-shaped pulls are typical for Dutch early furniture.

Behind the door in the middle-upper area later were added 6 small drawers.
see detail photo.

In the cornice you can see drop-shaped forms carved out - these are called 'knorren' and that is typical for the Renaissance.
The top panel is still intact and has a lovely patina.
You can view it because the cabinet is 126 cm high.
Ideal for decorative objects.