Music cabinet and piano with a relic of St Cecilia Music cabinet and piano with a relic of St Cecilia Music cabinet of oak and pine, partly painted in colors and gold and with tinned iron fittings, Music cabinet of oak and pine, partly painted in colors and gold and with tinned iron fittings. The panels of the two-door cabinet are painted with, among other things, the Annunciation, the marriage of Cecilia and Valerian, St. Catherine and St. Theresia. The case was an engagement gift from P.J.H. Cuypers to his second wife Antoinette Cathérine Thérèse Alberdingk Thijm, in 1858, the betrothal or vow of chastity of Cecilia and Valerian, the Annunciation: Mary, usually reading, is visited by the angel (sometimes a woman overhears the conversation), the Virgin Martyr Catherine of Alexandria, possible attributes: book, crown, emperor Maxentius, palm-branch, ring, sword, wheel, the foundress of the reformed (Discalced) Carmelites, T (h) eres (i) a or Avila, possible attributes: angel, arrow, deaf, heart (flaming or pierced by an arrow), Antoinette Catharine Thérèse Alberdingk Thijm, Pierre Joseph Hubert Cuypers, Roermond, c. 1858 - c. 1859, oak (wood), pine (wood), iron (metal), tin (metal), h 205.5 cm × w 103 cm × d 56.5 cm

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