拍品 199
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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
A FINE ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONISED CUT-BRASS, MOTHER OF PEARL AND POLYCHROME INLAID CENTRE TABLE, supplied by Bernardino Speluzzi, Milano, the serpentine-shaped top inlaid all over to imitate pietra dura, centred by a vase of flowers on a draped pedestal with a snail to each side and flanked by flaming torcheres with a mask head below, within a shaped frame decorated all-over with exotic birds and animals including parrots, dogs, rabbits, squirrels and peacocks, and with flower filled cornucopiae and altar pedestals, the border similarly decorated with exotic beasts including monkeys, tigers, lions, parrots, an armadillo and other animals and insects, above a similary decorated shaped frieze fitted with a pair of drawers centred by a shield shaped tasseled escutcheon, the reverse similar, the sides each with two shaped inlaid panels and centred with a tassel-hung shield-shaped escutcheon, on four inlaid shaped legs headed by satyr masks, each with foliate pendants with shell-cast clasps, on acanthus and foliate-cast scroll sabots, the underside of the top engraved on a rectangular brass plaque BER.NO SPELUZZI 1845 MILANO (carcass cracked to top), circa 1845 70½in. (79cm.) wide; 34¾in. (88.5cm.) high; 47in. (119.5cm.) deep

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A FINE ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONISED CUT-BRASS, MOTHER OF PEARL AND POLYCHROME INLAID CENTRE TABLE, supplied by Bernardino Speluzzi, Milano, the serpentine-shaped top inlaid all over to imitate pietra dura, centred by a vase of flowers on a draped pedestal with a snail to each side and flanked by flaming torcheres with a mask head below, within a shaped frame decorated all-over with exotic birds and animals including parrots, dogs, rabbits, squirrels and peacocks, and with flower filled cornucopiae and altar pedestals, the border similarly decorated with exotic beasts including monkeys, tigers, lions, parrots, an armadillo and other animals and insects, above a similary decorated shaped frieze fitted with a pair of drawers centred by a shield shaped tasseled escutcheon, the reverse similar, the sides each with two shaped inlaid panels and centred with a tassel-hung shield-shaped escutcheon, on four inlaid shaped legs headed by satyr masks, each with foliate pendants with shell-cast clasps, on acanthus and foliate-cast scroll sabots, the underside of the top engraved on a rectangular brass plaque BER.NO SPELUZZI 1845 MILANO (carcass cracked to top), circa 1845

70½in. (79cm.) wide; 34¾in. (88.5cm.) high; 47in. (119.5cm.) deep

拍品專文

The table is executed in the colourful boulle-revival style associated with Parisian firms such as that of Joseph Cremer (d. 1878) artiste en mosaique et marquetrie of the rue de l'Entrepot who won a bronze medal at the Paris 1844 Exhibition for his richly inlaid and antique-style furniture. It bears the plaque of the Milanese dealer Bernardino Speluzzi, who in 1848 assisted the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan in the acquistion of a pair of 17th Century mirrors (see, Museo Poldi-Pezzoli, 1983. vol 3, p. 315). The table with its serpentined frame and satyr herm-headed legs in the Louis XV picturesque style, is richly polychromed in the Louis XIV 'arabesque' manner. The tops festive ornament of a pedestal-supported vase framed by a triumphal baldequin and acanthus-wrapped ribbon-scrolls inhabited by birds and animals derives from ornamental engravings published by Jean Berain (d.1711).