Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics

Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics

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A Pair of Italian Neoclassical Gilt Metal Mounted Kingwood, Walnut, Sycamore and Fruitwood Marquetry Demilune Commodes, late 18th Century

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October 16, 06:33 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

with later gilt bronze mounted white marble tops; backs of both stamped with a crowned W and 1786


height 35 1/2 in.; width 54 in.; depth 24 in.

90 cm; 137 cm; 61 cm

Influenced by English and French neoclassical furniture designs, semi-elliptical or demilune form commodes with marquetry decoration were produced throughout Italy, though particularly favoured in the Piedmont region, seen for example in the work of father and son Ignazio and Luigi Ravelli or the Turin court cabinetmaker Giuseppe Viglione (b.1758). A group of D-shaped commodes by Viglione with architecturally-inspired inlaid decoration, including one with similar raised trompe-l’oil pilasters between the central drawers and rounded sides, is illustrated in Roberto Antonetto, Il Mobile piemontese nel Settecento (Turin 2010), Vol. I p.304-307). Related marquetry decoration is also found on late 18th-century Neapolitan case furniture, such as a commode in the Palazzo Reale di Caserta, illustrated in Enrico Colle, Il Mobile Neoclassico in Italia (Milan 2005), p.70.

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