AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONISED, HARDSTONE-MOUNTED AND PEWTER-STRUNG ARCHITECTURAL CABINET ON STAND

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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONISED, HARDSTONE-MOUNTED AND PEWTER-STRUNG ARCHITECTURAL CABINET ON STAND
By Giuseppe Bertini, Milano, Second half 19th Century
Inset all-over with lapis lazuli, agate, porphyry and other hardstones and specimen marbles, centred by an arched pediment with a balustrade to each side, above a central arch and two arches flanking, the central section with a niche cupboard door inset with a figure of Fame with a female caryatid to each side, between spiral turned columns, flanked to each side by a niche cupboard door with a pair of spiral turned columns, the interior fitted with small drawers, above further drawers, on stepped base; the lower part with two drawers, on baluster turned and fluted tapering legs, joined by a pierced stretcher with central turned finial, with a printed paper label located behind the top internal drawer of the central cupboard door Joseph Bertini, Milano, with his address and workshop locations
70in. (178cm.) wide; 83in. (213cm.) high; 18in. (46cm.) deep

来源

Thomas Beaumont Antiques, November 1987.

拍品专文

This richly ornamented architectural cabinet-on-stand, inlaid with lapis lazuli, agate and porphyry and embellished with ormolu figures and mounts, is designed in the seventeenth century manner and bears the retailer's and manufacturer's label of the celebrated Milanese bniste and restorer of antiquities, Giuseppe (Joseph) Bertini. Specialising in ivory and pietra dura inlaid furniture, Bertini exhibited at the Parma Belle Arti Exhibition of 1870 and retailed his wares from an 'antique and curiosity' shop in the Rue Venezia. Examples of his work may be seen at the Museo Poldi-Pezzoli, Milan.