Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 28. (Budapest, 2012)

Acquisitions between 2006 and 2010

Collectors and Treasures exhibition, some others are shown in the Collectors' display cabinet in the anteroom of the exhibition (e.g. the dance cards in 2007, the new items in the Ceramic department in 2010). The homepage of the museum (www.imm.hu) also keeps readers informed of the new acquisitions. The most important newly acquired items are introduced below collection by collection. FURNITURE COLLECTION 1.1 Short cabinet (trumeau

) Transylvania (around Kolozsvár, now Cluj-Napoca, Romania), c. 1810 Walnut and walnut root veneer on pine ground, ink drawing, carved and gilded motifs, copper knobs 103 x 139 x 61 cm A cabinet of lying rectangular format, with a single broad drawer above the two front doors, the piece displays stylistic motifs of the late empire and Biedermeier styles. Most of the surface of the two door-leaves comprises a continuous deepened panel of a semicircular outline, with floral ornaments in ink in the spandrels above. The front of the drawer above them is adorned with female figures holding urns in symmetrical arrangement around the keyhole cartouche (now missing) and with similar flower motifs to the cabinet doors at the sides. The rectangular top is unadorned, the edges forming a slight cornice. The French designation of the piece borrowed from architectural terminology alludes to the typical place of the furniture: it was often set against the wall between two windows, similarly to the vertical architectural member between the leaves of a doorway or windows on the outside of buildings. 1.1 112