Beguinage Furniture, From The Ursuline Convent Of Valenciennes

Rare and Interesting Small Beguinage Furniture
Characteristic of Flanders:
The beguines, who formed autonomous communities in buildings built around a tree-filled courtyard, led a life of pious but active penance in the workshops and infirmaries.
If it suited them to be modest, they should not live poorly.
The austere furniture of the beguinages therefore presents a quality, a sobriety and a rigor in the image of demanding forms of devotion.
For a model to compare in Furniture of the Belgian Provinces and French Flanders page 47.
Provenance Community of the Convent of the Ursulines Valenciennes.
In oak and from the Renaissance period.
Small lack of a molding cover joint and small shelf.
Good state of conservation.
H 85 by W 90 cm. Depth 47cm