A PAIR OF ITALIAN GREEN-LACQUERED AND PARCEL-GILT BRACKETS
A WEST COAST MODERNIST (LOTS 250-277)
A PAIR OF ITALIAN GREEN-LACQUERED AND PARCEL-GILT BRACKETS

VENICE, CIRCA 1770

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN GREEN-LACQUERED AND PARCEL-GILT BRACKETS
VENICE, CIRCA 1770
Each with grey-painted shaped platform above a laurel-swag-draped frieze centered by a portrait medallion, above a tapering foliate pendant base, one with ink-inscribed label 10567/2/klrrhf and both with pencil-inscribed labels 5814/8 and 134 £ /23 and 22, decoration largely original
13¾ in. (35 cm.) high, 18 in. (46 cm.) wide, 10 in. (25.5 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
A. Everett "Chick" Austin, former director of the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Acquired from Adolph Loewi, 1957.
Literature
G. Morazzoni, Mobili Veneziani Laccati, vol. I, Milan, n.d, pl. LXX, no. 1.
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, North Italian Furniture of the XVIII Century, 1953, no. 49, (illustrated).
Portland Art Museum, extended loan, 1999-2001.

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