ID 1027464
Lot 24 | A MONUMENTAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED HARDSTONE CABINET ON STAND
Valeur estimée
$ 700 000 – 1 000 000
THE FIVE FIGURES ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI BATTISTA FOGGINI (1652-1725) AND GIUSEPPE ANTONIO TORRICELLI (1659-1719), CIRCA 1714, THE ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE PROBABLY LATER BUT INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS
The ebony-veneered architectural cabinet surmounted by a standing military figure, with four allegorical figures on the corners and a front drawer, each side with a hardstone marquetry panel surmounted by a hardstone cartouche including two low relief panels, all on a parcel-gilt, ebonized wood pedestal with garlands and lion’s paw feet under a red velvet cover
46 ½ in. (118 cm.) high; 34 2/3 in. (88 cm.) wide; 31 in. (79 cm.) deep, the cabinet
45 in. (114 cm.); 41 in. (104 cm.) wide; 37 ½ in. (95 cm.) deep, the pedestal
Provenance
The figures and two cartouches with reliefs almost certainly commissioned by Cosimo III de' Medici (1642-1723) from the Galleria dei Lavori, Florence, possibly for a monument as a tribute to his son Ferdinando de’ Medici (1663-1713).
The cabinet and the stand, the Collection of the Rothschild family, Grand Hall in the Château de Ferrières, Seine-et-Marne.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
K. Lankheit, ‘Il Giornale del Foggini’, in Rivista d’arte, 1959, pp. 77-78.
H. Demoriane, ’Le plus spectaculaire des châteaux bâtis en France au XIXe siècle: Ferrières’, in Connaissance des Arts, July 1963, no. 137, p. 76.
A. M. Giusti, P. Mazzoni, A. Pampaloni Martelli, Il museo dell'opificio delle pietre dure a Firenze, Milan, 1978, fig. 294 and p. 307, no. 325.
C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Private Houses of Paris. The ‘Hôtels particuliers’ revealed, London, 2000, pp. 35, 41.
C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Private Houses of France. Living with History, Paris, 2014, pp. 268-269.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
K. Lankheit, ‘Il Giornale del Foggini’, in Rivista d’arte, 1959, pp. 55-108.
K. Lankheit, Florentinische Barockplastick. Die kunst am hofe der Letzten Medici 1670-1743, Munich, 1962, pp. 225-226, 239-250 and fig. 208-222.
Gli ultimi Medici. Il tardo barocco a Firenze, 1670-1743, exh. cat., Detroit/Florence, 1974, pp. 76-79, 346-349.
A. Gonzáles-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto : La Toscana e l’Italia Settentrionale, Milan, 1986, vol. II, p. 56, fig. 62-65.
A. M. Giusti, ed., Splendori di pietre dure, L’arte di corte nella Firenze dei Granduchi, exh. cat. Florence, 1988, pp. 17-18, 182-185.
A. M. Giusti, Pietre dure. L'arte Europea del mosaico negli arredi e nelle decorazioni dal 1500 al 1800, Milan, 1992, pp. 85-86, 112, figs. 48-49.
A. M. Massinelli, F. Tuena, Treasures of the Medici, New York, 1992, pp. 198-203, 208-209.
E. Colle, ed., I mobili di Palazzo Pitti. Il periodo dei Medici 1537-1737, Florence, 1997, pp. 222-227, no. 70.
A. González-Palacios, La collecciones reales españolas de mosaicos y piedras duras. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2001, pp. 115-116.
M. Mosco, O. Casazza, Il museo degli argenti. Collezioni e collezionisti, Florence, 2004, pp. 159-160, fig. 9.
A. M. Giusti, La marqueterie de pierres dures, Paris, 2005, p. 103, , pp. 198-199, 206-207, fig. 84.
A. M. Giusti, W. Koeppe, Art of the Royal Court. Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe, New York, 2008, exh. cat., nos. 47, 55, 56, 59, pp. 186-188, 200-201, 202-203, 206-207.
K. d’Alburquerque, ‘The partial reconstruction of two sketchbooks by Giovanni Battista Foggini’, in Master Drawings, vol. XLIX, number I, 2011, pp. 67-94.
K. d’Alburquerque, ed., Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652-1725), premier sculpteur à la cour de Cosme III de Médicis. Un fonds inédit de dessins, Maurizio Nobile, Bologna and Paris, 2016, notice 4, no. 13-15, pp. 32-35; notice 6, no.3, pp. 38-39; notice 29, no. 58, pp. 93-94.
| Technique appliquée: | Construction métallique |
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| Matériel: | Bronce, Bois naturel, Calcul |
| Style artistique: | Baroque, Vieux Maître |
| Lieu d'origine: | Italie, Europe |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Meubles et Lampes |
| Technique appliquée: | Construction métallique |
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| Matériel: | Bronce, Bois naturel, Calcul |
| Style artistique: | Baroque, Vieux Maître |
| Lieu d'origine: | Italie, Europe |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Meubles et Lampes |
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