A FLORENTINE EBONY, ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY BOX

LATE 17TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF LEONARDO VAN DER VINNE

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A FLORENTINE EBONY, ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY BOX
Late 17th Century, in the manner of Leonardo Van der Vinne
Each side with a raised panel inlaid with floral scrolling motifs in fruitwood, ivory, green-stained ivory and mother-of-pearl, the hinged lid with ebony and ivory banding to the rim, enclosing a geometrically-inlaid olivewood panel and green velvet-lined well, the sides above a stepped conformingly-banded base, lacking feet, reconstructed in England in the 19th Century, the later lock stamped 'SECURE/LEVER' and 'VR' below a crown
13½ in. (34 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

This ebony box incorporates colourful tablets of flowered scrolls of Roman acanthus inlaid with mother-of-pearl and exotic woods in the late 17th Century Florentine manner. In particular, its ribbon-tied scrolls relate to pietra dure tablets executed in the Uffizzi workshops under the direction of Gianbattista Foggini (d.1725). A related box attributed to Foggini and the specialist inlayer Leonardo van der Vinne is illustrated in A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1986, fig.69.

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