An Italian Renaissance carved walnut writing cabinet second half 16th century

with a moulded cornice above a panelled fall-front flanked by female winged terms, enclosing a cupboard door and seven short and one long drawer, above lopers terminating in a lion mask, the lower section with a pair of panelled  cupboard doors enclosing a shelf on bracket feet, the reverse with ink inscribed illegible paper labels, one of the long drawers with a partial ink inscribed label

Antichitá Salvadori, Florence

In otherwise good conserved condition. Old marks, chips and scratches commensurate with age and evidence of old minor worm which appears no longer active. There are construction and other hairline cracks and cracks in the panels due to shrinkage, but these do not detract from the piece. There is a later section of wood added above the fall-front moulding. Some of the drawer linings have been restored. The inside of the fall-front has ink stains. Evidence that the hinges having been changed on the small door on the inside. The feet appear to be later replacements.
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Comparative Literature:
William M. Odom, A History of Italian Furniture from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries, 1966, New York, p. 257, fig. 242, for a similar cabinet with identical inverted breakfront cornice above an interior with small drawers flanked by female terms with drapery and swags , described as Tuscan, second half 16th century (Bardini Collection, Florence).