An Italian giltwood carved pliant, with a rectangular loose cushion seat in a green dam...

An Italian giltwood carved pliant, with a rectangular loose cushion seat in a green damask and trimming, above ‘X'-frame baluster supports, carved with scrolls, joined by shaped stretchers, on inward scrolled feet.

Provenance

Probably One of the Turin Royal palaces, an identical pair is in the collection of Museo d'arti applicate, Milan, Castello Sforzesco.

Literature

•Enrico Colle, Museo di arti applicate. Mobili e intagli lignei nel Castello Sforzesco,Mondadori Electa, 1997, note 414.
•V. Viale, Mostra del Barocco Piemontese, Turin 1963, tabs. 185–186a.
•R. Antonetto, Minusieri ed ebanisti del Piemonte, Daniela Piazza editore, 1985, p. 223.
•A. Gonzàles Palacios, Casa D’oro, gli stili dei mobili, Fratelli Febbri editori, Milano 1966, vol. I, p. 112.

Detail Description

Download full details
Print Format

Additional images

Works

A neoclassical lacca and giltwood console table

An Italian carved and giltwood neoclassical Console table, with a rectangular peperino top with Roman ancient alabastro a pecorelle veneer.

A North Italian fruitwood, walnut, ebony , boxwood, tulipwood and kingwood microcarving portrait relief miniature attributed to Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo (1745-1820), depicting a standing Mars with cuirass, feathered helmet and sword, holding a spear with his right and a shield on his left hand.

An Italian neoclassical carved and gilded wood console table, with a rectangular Verde Alpi marble top.