AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED, ROCK CRYSTAL, PARCEL-GILT EBONY AND EBONISED PIETRA DURA CABINET

Lot 24
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£ 504 000
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Lot 24 | AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED, ROCK CRYSTAL, PARCEL-GILT EBONY AND EBONISED PIETRA DURA CABINET
Valeur estimée
£ 250 000 – 400 000
AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED, ROCK CRYSTAL, PARCEL-GILT EBONY AND EBONISED PIETRA DURA CABINET

THE CABINET ATTRIBUTED TO THE OPIFICIO DELLE PIETRE DURE, FLORENCE, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY, THE STAND REMODELLED CIRCA 1820-30, POSSIBLY BY ROBERT HUME OR MOREL & HUGHES

The shaped balustrade gallery surmounted by eight figures of putti playing musical instruments, above a corniced frieze over an arrangement of drawers and hidden drawers spread across two levels of architectural design, inlaid overall with pietra dura panels depicting foliage, flowering vases and birds and smaller panels of diaspri di Sicilia, each level punctuated by spiral-turned columns with Corinthian capitals and angles with alcoves containing mythological figures including the goddesses Ceres, Venus, Diana, and Veritas, the central breakfront section with a pediment mounted with two winged female figures, flanked by smaller pediments mounted with finials, the sides decorated with a geometric strapwork arrangement of inlaid panels flanked by pilasters, above a conformingly shaped stand with inlaid frieze, on Corinthian-headed spiral-turned supports, the back with an arrangement of seven plates divided by uprights inlaid with 17th-century verre églomisé panels, on a plinth base on gadrooned bun feet

73 in. (186 cm.) high; 44 1⁄2 in. (113 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep





Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Alvar González-Palacios, Il Tiempo Del Gusto, Il Granducato di Toscana e gli Stati Settentrionali, vol. 1-2, Milan, 1986.

Monique Riccardi-Cubitt, The Art of the Cabinet, London, 1992.

Bet McLeod and Philip Hewat-Jaboor, "Pietre Dure" Cabinets for William Beckford: Gregorio Franchi's Role", Furniture History, Vol. 38 (2002), pp. 135-143.

Simon Swynfen Jervis, "Pietre Dure" Caskets in England, Furniture History, Vol. 43 (2007), pp. 245-255, 257-265.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Treasures of the Royal Court, Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Royal Palaces of Europe, New York, 2008.



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