Cupboard - Oak

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

Authentic furniture, it appeared in both Belgian Brabant and Dutch North Brabant.
Characteristic are the proportions, wider than high.

Beautiful light blond oak that is quarter-sawn.
In the panels of the doors there is a nice distribution with inlaid beads.
This treatment appeared only at the end of the 17th century.
Therefore I date the cabinet to the late 17th to 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 they appear as sturdy 'short' jaw hinges.
This method is seen only in 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 lock plate and pear-shaped pull are pewter-plated (original).
Those pear-shaped pulls are typical for Dutch early furniture.

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

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