A NORTH ITALIAN AMARANTH, ROSEWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE attributed to Giuseppe Maggiolini, late 18th Century

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A NORTH ITALIAN AMARANTH, ROSEWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE attributed to Giuseppe Maggiolini, late 18th Century

The rectangular top centred by a foliate-trailed quiver with flanking bows scrolled foliate arabesques within a crossbanded and stiff-leaf inlaid border, the stiff-leaf cornice enclosing a burgundy silk velvet-lined writing-slide above a panelled frieze centred by a stylised palmette and foliate repeating motif with one long drawer flanked by two further drawers, on scrolled bracket-headed and entrelac panelled square tapering legs, with later English early 19th Century ring-turned feet with brass caps and castors, two angle brackets replaced
39¼in. (100cm.) wide; 32½in. (82.5cm.) high; 21¾in. (55cm.) deep

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The table's marquetry top with palm-leaf frame and hollow-cornered tablet displays a trophy celebrating Love's Triumph, with Cupid's flower-wreathed weapons amongst flowered arabesque scrolls of Roman acanthus. Related trophies, in the manner of the artist Giuseppe Levati, feature in a commode design executed in 1805 at the celebrated Turin workshops of Giuseppe Maggiolini (d. 1814), Intarsiatore to Archduke Ferdinand (d. 1824) (see: G. Morazzoni, Il mobile Intarsiato, Milan. 1957. pl. VIII. fig. b) as well as in cut-cornered tablets on a secrétaire attributed to Maggiolini (see: G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Neoclassico Italiano Milan, 1955, pl. CLV). The table frieze with palm-enriched guilloche, together with ribbon-strung paterae on hermed feet appear on an oval table designed by Guiseppe Levati for Maggiolini (see: Morazzoni, op.cit., pl. LII, fig. a and c). Maggiolini manufactured furniture for presentation to the Russian court, and also helped furnish the Milanese residence of Eugene Beauharnais, the Napoleonic Viceroy

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