AN ITALIAN ROCOCO STYLE GILT METAL-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BUREAU CABINET

Details

AN ITALIAN ROCOCO STYLE GILT METAL-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BUREAU CABINET

The upper section with arched top and mirrored door, the fall front opening to a fitted interior with compartments above a central slide, the bombé base with two short and two long drawers inlaid à quatre faces on cabriole legs ending in sabots, bearing a paper label inscribed R. Cumming..2 Park.., Genoese--77in. (195.5cm.) high, 39in. (99cm.) wide, 19in. (48cm.) deep

Provenance

Rose Cumming, New York, purchased by the present owner, 22 July 1969

Lot Essay

The distinctive outline and use of veneers of this bureau cabinet relate it to a group of case pieces executed in Genoa in the 1760's. The radially veneered central medallion on the sides and fall-front relates to several bureau cabinets illustrated in L. Caimi, L'Ebanisteria Genovese del Settecento, 1995, pp.195-199, figs. 161-167. Another bureau cabinet of similar design and a single cabinet door is illustrated in M. Agnellini, Mobili Italiani del Settecento, 1990, p.96. A related Genoese bureau cabinet was sold Christie's Rome, 27 March 1990, lot 224.