Medicine cabinet

It is designed as a small cabinet with numerous small drawers and compartments. The central part has double doors and the lid has a side drawer. There is space in the drawers for solid medicinal substances and, in the compartment lined with red silk and velvet and trimmed with braided metal ribbon, for small tin plate containers of ointments and liquids. A skilful watercolour is glued on the inside of the lid, showing the interior of two apothecary workshops with four men at work. Cabinets were a very typical kind of storage furniture in the seventeenth century, normally used for locking up valuables, correspondence or collections of small objects that people sometimes took with them on journeys. They are usually termed writing cabinets in probate inventories from this period in Slovenia. Those with wide bases, stepped structures and a dark ebony appearance were called Augsburg of south German cabinets. The exterior of this one is decorated with geometric marquetry in darker and lighter stained pieces of veneer, in the most prominent places in the shape of stars, and outlined with metal thread.