AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CABINET

PROBABLY UMBRIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CABINET
Probably Umbria, Late 18th Century
The rectangular faux marble top above a frieze drawer and door painted with arabesques centered by a grotesque reserve with fruit, the panelled sides similarly decorated, the uprights painted with stylized trailing leaves, on tapering legs
35½in. (90cm.) high, 21in. (53.25cm.) wide, 16½in. (42cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A related Umbrian cabinet with similar painted arabesque and leafy vine decoration, and with virtually identical decoration to the side panels, is in the collection of Count Leonardo di Serego Alighieri is illustrated in G. Cantelli, Il Mobile Umbro, Milan, 1973, p. 162, pl. 180.

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