AN ITALIAN POLYCHROME SCAGLIOLA TOP

SIGNED D. MAGNANI, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN POLYCHROME SCAGLIOLA TOP
SIGNED D. MAGNANI, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The circular top with central pastoral scene of peasants and a monk by a wooded river, within a stiff-leaf, Greek-key and pearled rim, within a later ebonized frame, the field signed to the bottom 'D. Magnani Pinsit', restored breaks
41 in. (104 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

This scagliola table top is related to a group of tops with pastoral landscape scenes within various geometric borders, usually with black ground (A.M. Massinelli, Scagliola l'Arte della Pietra di Luna, Rome, 1993, pp. 68 and 70 - 72). Although little seems recorded about D. Magnani, a circular top with the Rape of the Sabines after Valerio Castello and within a green simulated marble border, is signed and dated D. Magnani 1827 (Massinelli, idem., p. 74).

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