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AN ITALIAN PIETRA DURA, GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED AND INLAID EBONY TABLE CABINET

Lot 155
23.05.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 155 | AN ITALIAN PIETRA DURA, GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED AND INLAID EBONY TABLE CABINET
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 20 000
AN ITALIAN PIETRA DURA, GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED AND INLAID EBONY TABLE CABINET
SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Inset and inlaid with lapis lazuli, jaspers, agates, and amethyst, in the form of an architectural clock case, the split pedimented top above a lapis lazuli dial flanked by Composite columns, above a stepped plinth with a drawer, mounted with panels of fruiting and foliate branches, on bun feet, with losses to the pietra dura, applied with blue-bordered circular label inscribed '249', lacking movement, restorations and subsequent alterations to the internal arrangement
23 ½ in. (59.5 cm.) high; 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) wide; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) deep




Provenance

Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, and by descent to his daughter,
Hannah de Rothschild, who became Countess of Rosebery upon her marriage in 1878 to Archibald Philip, the 5th Earl of Rosebery, thence by descent,
The 6th Earl of Rosebery; Sotheby's house sale, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, 24 May 1977, lot 1055.



Literature

Mentmore, privately printed catalogue, 1884, vol. II, The Limoges Room, p. 98, no. 10.
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