Giovanni Pratesi: The Florentine Eye
Giovanni Pratesi: The Florentine Eye
Italian, Florence, second quarter of the 18th century
A carved and giltwood console with a Giallo di Siena top
Auction Closed
March 22, 07:15 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Italian, Florence, second quarter of the 18th century
A carved and giltwood console with a Giallo di Siena top
The support in shape of a figure of mermaid on a later marbleized plinth.
83 by 75 by 43cm., 32¾ by 29½ by 17in.
The designer of this console lends a three-dimensional form to the ideas of Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652-1725) and Diacinto Maria Marmi, both Directors of the Grand-ducal Gallery at the Uffizi, Florence. The design for a fountain from circa 1713-18 by Foggini, and a late 17th-century drawing by Marmi, both featuring a winged female support, were first published by Alvar González-Palacios in 1986 (op. cit.)
RELATED LITERATURE
A. González-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1986, vol. II, pp. 28-31, figs. 8, 11, 12, 13; E. Colle, I Mobili di Palazzo Pitti, il periodo dei Medici, 1537-1737, Florence, 1997, p. 255, fig. 89; E. Colle, Il Mobile Barocco in Italia, Milan, 2000, pp. 192-183, no. 46
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