CABINET, baroque 17th/18th century.

Maple Tray. Cabinet cabinets veneered with ebony, agate stones, buds, legs and gilded figures in bronze.
Height ca 169 cm, ca 41 x 128 cm

The cabinet reportedly belonged to lawyer Ragnar Bergendal.
Source Wikipedia: Ragnar Sven David Bergendal, born 7 August 1890 Lund, died there 5 February 1980#1, was a Swedish lawyer, professor of criminal law and legal encyclopedia at Lund University.

Bergendal became a juris doctor in 1922 and a docent in criminal law the same year. In 1928 he became professor of criminal law and legal encyclopedia at the University of Lund, a position he held until 1957. He was also the university's pro-rector 1947–1951 and rector 1951–1957. In 1922, Bergendal assisted the Criminal Code Commission in the preparation of motives for proposals for the Criminal Code, and in 1928 became an expert in the Ministry of Justice when considering proposals for amendments to the Criminal Code.

Bergendal published, among other things, Aktibolaget's impoverishment and its external legal conditions (1922), the Criminal Law section in Lärobok i rätskunskap (1924) and On the significance of bankruptcy for crimes against creditors (1929).

As a one-man investigator, Bergendal conducted an investigation that led to the 1935 Sterilization Act (SOU 1933:22). Bergendal also led an inquiry appointed in 1939 by Minister of Justice KG Westman into restrictions on the freedom of the press (SOU 1940:5), which suggested the possibility of publication bans for periodicals, previews of printed works, and import bans for printed works. The investigation had also assisted with the work on the so-called transport ban regulation.#2 Bergendal was elected as a member of the Humanist Science Society in Lund in 1929.#3 He was also an employee of the Swedish encyclopedia under the signature R. Bl.

Ragnar Bergendal was the son of David Bergendal (1855-1908), professor of zoology at Lund University, and teacher Nanny Bergendal (1861-1935), née Erikson. In 1940, he married Ingrid Anderson (1890–1979), who was the daughter of grain merchants Anders Ohlsson and Hanna Nilsson and the widow of professor Sven Wicksell. Ragnar Bergendal's grave care can be found in the family grave at the Northern Cemetery in Lund.