MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY PIEDMONT

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A NORTH ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY WRITING-TABLE
Mid-18th Century, possibly Piedmont
The shaped rectangular brown leather-lined top with lozenge parquetry border, above a frieze-drawer with conforming parquetry and a shaped kneehole, flanked on the left by two short conforming drawers and on the right by a simulated drawer and one drawer, the right-hand side of the top with a spring-loaded hinged well, the sides and the reverse with a shaped apron and conforming lozenge parquetry, on cabriole legs headed by pierced foliate mounts and with pierced C-scroll and foliate sabots
30¼ in. (77 cm.) high; 39¼ in. (99.5 cm.) wide; 27¾ in. (70.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Although the overall form and use of parquetry possibly points to a Neapolitan origin, the tightness of the geometrical inlay and the understated profile of this elegant 'Louis XV' writing-table possibly indicates that it was made by a Piedmontese cabinet-maker. A related Turinese writing-table in the Palazzo Reale, Turin, is illustrated in V. Viale et al., Mostra Barocco Piemontese, exh. cat, Turin, 1963, fig. 92 (b).

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