AN ITALIAN BAROQUE WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET
AN ITALIAN BAROQUE WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET

VENICE, CIRCA 1740

细节
AN ITALIAN BAROQUE WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET
Venice, circa 1740
The shaped cresting with molded edge centering a cartouche-form mirror etched with a flower above a pair of arched panelled doors enclosing shelves and three drawers flanked by canted angles above candleslides, the base with a slant-front enclosing a fitted interior above three serpentine cross-banded drawers, on later short bracket feet, interior refitted, drawers relined
95in. (241cm.) high, 45in. (115.5cm.) wide, 24in. (61cm.) deep
拍场告示
Please note that there should not be a dateline in the description for this lot. The top section and base section are both 18th Century but not original to each other.

拍品专文

Related Venetian bureau cabinets are illustrated in S. Levy, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento, Milan, 1964, vol. II, figs. 174-6.