Turin, 1750 circa
ebony Engraving Kingwood Poplar Walnut Woods
83 x 104.5 x 55 cm (32 ⁵/₈ x 41 ¹/₈ x 21 ⁵/₈ inches)

Provenance

Prof.Francesco Curiale, Palermo.

Literature

- G. Ferraris, Pietro Piffetti e gli ebanisti a Torino 1670–1838, edited by Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios with the collaboration of Roberto Valeriani, Umberto Allemandi, Turin,1992, pp. 58–59, no. 21; pp. 60–61, no. 22, pp. 62–63, no. 23, pp. 66–67, no. 25, pp. 156–
159, for furniture by Prinotto, but with interventions documented to Piffetti with comparable representations of Bruno of Cologne;
- R. Antonetto, Minusieri ed Ebanisti del Piemonte: Storia e Immagini del Mobile Piemontese 1636–1844, Daniela Piazza Editore, Turin, 1985, pp.263 and ff., nos. 374,375, 376, pp.266–267, nos. 380, 381, 382 (here the figure represented has to be identified with Saint Bruno not Saint Charles), pp. 326, nos. 484, pp.332–333, 338–341;
- R. Antonetto, Il mobile piemontese nel Settecento, vol. I, Turin, 2010, pp. 84–85, 86–88,116–118, 180–183, 243, 270;
- Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, How to read European decorative arts, The Metropolitan museum of Art, New York, distributed by Yale University press, New Haven and London, 2023, pp. 44-45, 158. For an example of a piece of furniture very similar to
the present and firmly documented to Pietro Piffetti in the same years, see inv.2020.371.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/835302.

Detail Description

A unique console table of the Turinese barocchetto, the supporting structure in walnut and poplar, veneered in walnut, and richly inlaid in purplewood,rosewood, maplewood, and boxwood, finely engraved and tinted with burning sand.
Attributed to Pietro Piffetti (1701–Turin–1777).