Provenance

•Castel Castagneto Po, Turin.
•The Alberto Bruni Tedeschi Collection to benefit the Virginio Bruni Tedeschi
Foundation: Furniture, Old Master Paintings and Works of Art from the Castle of
Castagneto Po, near Turin, and from other French Residences. Sotheby’s, London, 21
March 2007, lot 135.
•Private collection.

Literature

Studio Essay by Lodovico Caumont Caimi

Detail Description

A large Genoese gilt-bronze-mounted and
wood-veneered bureau plat, the rectangular
serpentine top inset with a tooled leather
writing surface, the top resting onto a skirt with
a central long frieze drawer flanked by four
further short drawers mounted with flowers,
foliage and scrolls cast escutcheons and, on the
opposite side, five opposing simulated
drawers, raised on cabriole legs terminating
with gilt and chesed bronze mounts in the
shape of claw feet. The veneer of the short
drawers and side skirts creating a quatrefoil motif, the four corners with chased
gilt-bronze mounts with acanthus sprays, flowers and scrolls.
Executed in Milan by a Genoese master cabinetmaker, circa 1760