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An Italian carved giltwood mirror inset with an oil on canvas chinoserie panel, Piedmontese, the carving possibly by Michele Crotti first quarter 18th century
Description
- pine, glitwood, glass, paint, canvas
- 185cm. high, 149.5cm. wide, 10cm. deep; 6ft. ¾in., 4ft. 10¾in., 4in.
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Roberto Antonetto, Il Mobile Piemontese nel Settecento, Vol. II, pp. 172-176.
Edi Baccheschi, Mobili Piemontesi del sei e Settecento, Milan,1963, p. 43
This magnificently carved overmantel mirror with scrolls, brackets and foliage is reminiscent of similar overmantel mirrors in some of the Turinese palaces. See for example a related overmantel mirror illustrated by Antonetto, op. cit., p.176, fig. 4, for an overmantel mirror of similar form and carved elements wiith mirrored pilasters, small consoles and similarly carved mouldings, in Palazzo Madama, Museo Civico d'Arte d'Antica,Torino, (Inv. 1342/L), the carving of which is attributed to Michele Crotti, one of the gilders active in the gilded Appartment in Palazzo Carignano as well as in Palazzo Madama Turin.Also see Baccheschi, op. cit., p. 43, for an overdoor and door frame, with similar carving and a painted panel with chinoiseries to that on the offered mirror (formerly in the Pietro Accorsi, Collection).