A PAIR OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE STYLE POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DOORS

SECOND HALF, 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE STYLE POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DOORS
Second half, 19th Century
Each rectangular door centered and set at each end with a roundel, the former with two putti, the latter with greyhounds flnking a fountain, centering two rectangular panel decorated with a coat-of-arms beneath an open crown above a mask flanked by scrolled acanthus set with a bird and surmounted by paired torches, the roundels and panel within egg-and-dart surrounds set at the angles with acanthus, all within grotesque panels within ogee moulded leaftip surrounds, the reverse set with two large canted rectangular panels each decorated with an allegorical female figure, alternating with three small rectangular panels with scrolled-acanthus decoration
93½in. (237.5cm) high, 21in. (53.5cm) wide (2)

Provenance

The Princes of Torlonia and the Prince Colonna di Stigliane

Lot Essay

The decoration on these doors is loosely dervived from a drawing for the Logge di Rafaello in the Vatican, illustrated in Il pallazzo del Quirinale, Volume I, Marina Natoli and Maria Antonietta Scarpati, Istituto Polografico e Zecca Dello Stato, Libreria Dello Stato, Rome 1989, p.9.
The arms featured on the doors are those of the Princes of Torlonia and the Prince of Colonna di Stigliano.

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