A PAIR OF VENETIAN WALNUT PRIE-DIEUS

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF VENETIAN WALNUT PRIE-DIEUS
Mid-18th Century
Each with later shaped Sicilian Jasper inset top above a shaped frieze centred by pierced shelves above a C-scroll cabriole and cabochon support, on a shaped and lobed platform with waved apron centred by a pierced shell, on cabriole legs and scrolled feet, the top of one with paper label inscribed in ink 'Gatti Casazza No. 33-', both platforms with restored breaks, both sides of one lacking carved elements
37¼ in. (94.5 cm.) high; 25¾ in. (65.5 cm.) wide; 15 in. (38 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Collection Gatti Casazza, Venice.

Literature

G. Morazzoni, Il Molbile Veneziano del Settecento, Milan, 1927, p. 241

Exhibited

Venice, Il Settecento Italiano, August 1929, No. 343.

Lot Essay

Other closely related Venetian prie-dieux are illustrated in C. Santini, Mille Mobili Veneti, Modena, n.d.,p. 265, fig. 566 (in the collection of the Museo Civico, Feltre) and G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento, Milan, 1958, vol. II, fig. CDLXIV (in the collection of Alessandro Orsi).

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