ATTRIBUTED TO FERDINANDO POLIGANI, CIRCA 1864

細節

AN ITALIAN BAROQUE STYLE IVORY-INLAID EBONY AND EBONIZED BUREAU-CABINET**
Attributed to Ferdinando Poligani, circa 1864
The upper section with a modified swan's neck cresting centering a later pineapple finial and with dentil molding below, the center section with an arched paneled cupboard door flanked at either side by a fielded panel cupboard door, all inlaid with engraved putti and draped female figures, the central door with a coat-of-arms of the Pallavicini family crossed with another Italian family, each cupboard with a drawer below; the lower section with a concave-fronted bureau enclosing an arrangement of drawers, pigeon holes and a cupboard, and with three frieze drawers below, all with scrolling foliate inlay, the lower section with three cupboard doors inlaid with similar to the upper section; bearing a cut-out label with printed auction catalogue description andlot 4, inscribed in ink Admiral Pilcher and the reverse of one drawer inscribed in 19th century hand Bought at Christie's sale...
103in. (262cm.) high, 61½in. (156cm.) wide, 22in. (56cm.) deep

來源

Admiral Pilcher.
Purchased from Lloyd Paxton, Dallas,1981.

注意事項

Notice Regarding the Sale of Ivory and Tortoiseshell Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing ivory or tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

拍品專文

When it was sold, this bureau-cabinet was bearing the label of the firm Ferdinando Poligani from Milan and the ink inscription Fatto Nell'Anno 1864, which is now in all probability obscured by a glued lining to the interior. It is almost certainly to be the bureau-cabinet with the same label and signature illustrated in C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, Suffolk, 1985, p.437, pl. 1294.

The firm of Ferdinando Poligani had premises at Borgo di Porta, Vittoria N.81, Milan, and flourished in the 1860-70's. Poligani specialized in architectural pieces with a Baroque influence, often inlaid with engraved ivory figures. (See Payne, op.cit., p. 389).