MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN SILVER-MOUNTED FRAMED PIETRA-DURA PANELS
Mid-18th Century
Each with a central panel of a parrot in a pear tree surrounded by a lapis lazuli band with mother-of-pearl lines, with a moulded slip, in an outer lapis lazuli frame with foliate mounts on each side and cherub masks flanked by scrolls in each corner, surmounted by a lapis lazuli oval in a C-scroll and strapwork cresting centred by a shell, the silver bearing the Naples marks of a crown above 'NAP 1763', minor variations in the size of the frames, the backboards later, the silver stamps possibly added at a later date
17 in. x 10½ in. (43 cm. x 26.5 cm.) (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 11 December 1987, lot 215.

Lot Essay

The ribbon-banded vignette of a fruit-tree inhabited by a bird and butterfly corresponds to a set of two framed panels from the Grand Ducal workshops in the Uffizi displayed in the Green Vaults, Dresden (A. González-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1986, figs. 272 and 273).

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