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AN ITALIAN ENGRAVED-BONE-INLAID AND EBONISED TABLE CABINET
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AN ITALIAN ENGRAVED-BONE-INLAID AND EBONISED TABLE CABINET

17TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN ENGRAVED-BONE-INLAID AND EBONISED TABLE CABINET
17TH CENTURY
With a recessed bank of twelve small drawers centred by a cupboard, each drawer inlaid with a panel engraved with a rural scene, the cupboard with panel depicting Mars, with bronze carrying-handles to the sides, on later turned feet with blue-bordered paper label indistinctly inscribed 'Kaslehen aus derre Erbe von Tante Mathilde v.Pfyffer', minor losses and restorations
22 in. (57 cm.) high; 25 in. (64 cm.) wide; 11 in. (30 cm.) d
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By the turn of the 17th century Naples was a centre for the production of table cabinets as its Spanish rulers had annexed Portugal in 1580s thereby gaining control of the trade in ivory and ebony from Goa. This supply of raw materials fostered the burgeoning production of engraved ivory goods, such as the present lot, and enticed skilled migrant craftsmen from Germany and Flanders. As the fashion took hold the mercantile classes were keen to emulate the fashionable work but using cheaper native materials. A Neapolitan table cabinet of near identical design but enclosed by doors is illustrated in Alvar Gonzlez Palacios, Il Patrimonio Artistico del Quirinale, I Mobili Italiani, Milan, 1996. A related cabinet was sold from the Duarte Pinto Coelho collection, Christie's South Kensington, 20-21 July 2011.