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A FRENCH PROVINCIAL SCAGLIOLA AND WHITE-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE
Lot 43THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A FRENCH PROVINCIAL SCAGLIOLA AND WHITE-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE

19TH CENTURY, THE SCAGLIOLA TOP DECORATED WITH A PLANISPHERE AFTER A MAP BY VINCENZO MARIA CORONELLI

Closed5 December 2013

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A FRENCH PROVINCIAL SCAGLIOLA AND WHITE-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE
19TH CENTURY, THE SCAGLIOLA TOP DECORATED WITH A PLANISPHERE AFTER A MAP BY VINCENZO MARIA CORONELLI
The top decorated with the Commedia dell'Arte figures of Pulcinella and Arlecchino flanking a planishepere inscribed 'LE GLOBE TERRESTRE REPRESENTÉ EN DEUX PLANS-HEMISPHEREs ET EN DIVERSEs AVTRES FIGVRES / Par P. Coronelli Cosmographe de Corrigé et augementé par le Sr De TILLEMON A PARIS Chez I.B.Nolin alenseigne de la Place de Victoires', above a waved frieze and cabriole legs, previously green-painted
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 39 in. (99 cm.) wide; 21½ in. (55 cm.) deep

The Collection of Monsieur Henry Clarke; sold Christie's Monaco, 20 June 1998, lot 82.

Specialist note

Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718) was a Franciscan monk, cosmographer and cartographer, known in particular for his atlases and globes. He was born in Venice, where he spent most of his life. He excelled in the study of both astronomy and Euclid, and published the volumes known as Atlante Veneto. Around 1678 he was commissioned to make a set of terrestrial and celestial globes for Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma. Coronelli then moved to Paris following the invitation of Cardinal César d'Estrées, a friend and advisor to Louis XIV, where he remained for two years. He moved permanently back to Venice in 1705, where he died aged 68, having created hundreds of maps in his lifetime.