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Lot 757
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE, LATE 18TH C with dentil cornice and fitted with adjustable shelves enclosed by a pair of doors with gothic arched glazing bars, the secretaire with figured drawers retaining the original brass handles above panelled doors enclosing trays, 236cm h; 61 x 126cm++Old repair to top and bracket feet, one of the panelled doors slightly warped and lacking part of the bead. The glass to the cabinet doors with typical wreathing of the period but several panes cracked; n o a 'marriage'
Lot 364
A JAPANESE MINIATURE SILVER MOUNTED SHIBAYAMA CABINET, MEIJI PERIOD fitted with three drawers enclosed by two doors, decorated with insects including a dragonfly, ladybird and spider and web, the exterior with birds, fruit and flowers, the back carved in shallow relief with a bejewelled elephant, 7.5cm h++Mounts tarnished black and several small hairlines, lacking one or two pieces of the inlay, several minor cracks, mainly on the back, lacking small piece of silver edging on front lower edge, the ivory on the exterior dusty and somewhat yellowed with age
Lot 774
A REGENCY GILT BRASS MOUNTED ROSEWOOD WRITING CABINET, C1810, TWO OF THE PIETRE DURE PANELS GRAND DUCAL WORKSHOPS, FLORENCE, C1700-35 with gilt brass mounts and marble slab, the fall front inset with three Italian pietre dure panels of a volcano or ruins in beaded gilt brass frames , the interior fitted with drawers and pigeon holes, contemporary straight grained navy morocco inset writing surface, flanked by plain pillars with milled capital and foot above panelled frieze drawer, on tapering turned legs with reeded knop and collar, 126cm h; 39 x 107cm, keyProvenance: In the same private family ownership since the early 20th c. Florentine pietre dure panels of landscapes with ruins of this type were a speciality of the Galleria degli Lavori later known as the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and reflects the taste of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo II (r. 1609.20). Its founder, Cosimo's father Grand Duke Ferdinando I de Medici (1549-1609) sought to emulate landscape paintings by the newly perfected art of pietre dure. Similar examples of the use of pietre dure are found on 17th-19th c case furniture and caskets but also framed or unmounted panels such as in the Florentine room of the Schloss Favorite near Baden Baden and others still in the Museo dell'Opificio in Florence. The two on the present beautifully preserved Regency cabinet are identical to two of those on the magnificent Wingfield Castle Cabinet now in the Gilbert Collection, London. Of ebonised and giltwood, it was made in England, 1775-99 to display a series of eleven panels all similarly featuring classical ruins, the monumentality emphasised by the presence of peasants in the foreground. See Massinelli (A M), The Gilbert Collection, Hardstones, London 2000, Catalogue No 6, pp 44-46 and Minter (A), Pietre Dure-A Palette made of Hardstones, article in Furniture History Society Newsletter 215, August 2019, pp 1-7, fig 5.++In fine original condition
Lot 890
A 17th century North Italian ebony veneered and ivory table cabinet, the crossbanded top with two rectangular panels and the sides centred by square panels, cast gilt metal carrying handles and cast and pierced corner mounts, the square and rectangular panelled hinged fall front enclosing an arrangement of seven short and one long drawer disguised as three, inlaid in ivory with squirrels, hares and scrollwork, cast lion mask back plates with double fish and scallop ring handles, surrounding a door with an arched panel depicting a flower filled urn, within engraved ivory veneered borders, the hinged fall front with contra partie panels of leaping hares and scrollwork, on later bun feet, 42.5cm wide x 31cm deep x 34.5cm high.Illustrated*** Labelled G. Coen, Antiquario, Brescia
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