A painted Norwegian Baroque and gilded cupboard, profiled top, each side with iron handles, sides and front decorated with grisaille paintings showing landscapes, trees and ornaments, the front with two doors enclosing shelves and fall front behind which spoon shelf, above narrow drawer, curved legs joined by X-shaped stretcher adorned with star motif. C. 1720-40. H. 208 cm. W. 145 cm. D. 68 cm. Provenance: Carl Valentin Falsen (1787-1852), Øvre Hoen in Øvre Eiker.The cabinet is known as the Falsen Cabinet (?Falsenskapet?) after the Norwegian politician and magistrate Carl Valentin Falsen. Falsen was born in 1787 in Kristiania and raised in Copenhagen. Following his return to Norway in 1808, he became an important figure in Norwegian politics and an advocate of Norwegian independence.Serving as bailiff in Trondheim from 1813 he drafted the Trondheim Charter (?Trondhjemsadressen?) advocating an independent Norwegian constitution which was signed by 59 of the city?s principal citizens.In 1826 he became the magistrate (?sorenskriver?) of Eiker, Modum and Sigdal. Following this assignment he bought the estate Øvre Hoen in Øvre Eiker, where the cabinet comes from. As Magistrate his closest employee was Mons Lie, father of the poet, Jonas Lie, who was born nearby in 1833.Falsen was a member of the Norwegian parliament, Stortinget, from 1821 and served in various high positions and political offices until his death in 1852. Falsen was the brother of Christian Magnus Falsen (1782-1830), who drafted the 1814 Norwegian constitution of independence. A painted Norwegian Baroque and gilded cupboard, profiled top, each side with iron handles, sides and front decorated with grisaille paintings showing landscapes, trees and ornaments, the front with two doors enclosing shelves and fall front behind which spoon shelf, above narrow drawer, curved legs joined by X-shaped stretcher adorned with star motif. C. 1720-40. H. 208 cm. W. 145 cm. D. 68 cm. Provenance: Carl Valentin Falsen (1787-1852), Øvre Hoen in Øvre Eiker.The cabinet is known as the Falsen Cabinet (?Falsenskapet?) after the Norwegian politician and magistrate Carl Valentin Falsen. Falsen was born in 1787 in Kristiania and raised in Copenhagen. Following his return to Norway in 1808, he became an important figure in Norwegian politics and an advocate of Norwegian independence.Serving as bailiff in Trondheim from 1813 he drafted the Trondheim Charter (?Trondhjemsadressen?) advocating an independent Norwegian constitution which was signed by 59 of the city?s principal citizens.In 1826 he became the magistrate (?sorenskriver?) of Eiker, Modum and Sigdal. Following this assignment he bought the estate Øvre Hoen in Øvre Eiker, where the cabinet comes from. As Magistrate his closest employee was Mons Lie, father of the poet, Jonas Lie, who was born nearby in 1833.Falsen was a member of the Norwegian parliament, Stortinget, from 1821 and served in various high positions and political offices until his death in 1852. Falsen was the brother of Christian Magnus Falsen (1782-1830), who drafted the 1814 Norwegian constitution of independence. Estimate DKK : 300000 / 400000