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AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD AND PIETRA DURA FIRESCREEN ENTITLED 'FLIRTATION'
By A. Sandrini, Florence
The pietra dura panel finely inlaid with a variety of marbles, depicting a couple in late 17th Century dress within an interior, he standing holding his hat, whilst she sits, a chimney-piece in the background with a draped table and a mandolin, the reverse inscribed dipinto dal Prof. F. Vinea Flirtation/eseguitoin mosaico a Firenze via dei Fossi No. 4 nel laboretorio di A. Sandrini diretto da Gino Panerai; the giltwood frame of rectangular outline decorated all over with foliage and scrolls, the pediment centred by a crown within an escutcheon, on a circular spreading foot
the panel: 16½in. (42cm.) x 22¼in. (56.5cm.)
the frame: 31in. (79cm.) wide; 57½in. (146cm.) high
By A. Sandrini, Florence
The pietra dura panel finely inlaid with a variety of marbles, depicting a couple in late 17th Century dress within an interior, he standing holding his hat, whilst she sits, a chimney-piece in the background with a draped table and a mandolin, the reverse inscribed dipinto dal Prof. F. Vinea Flirtation/eseguitoin mosaico a Firenze via dei Fossi No. 4 nel laboretorio di A. Sandrini diretto da Gino Panerai; the giltwood frame of rectangular outline decorated all over with foliage and scrolls, the pediment centred by a crown within an escutcheon, on a circular spreading foot
the panel: 16½in. (42cm.) x 22¼in. (56.5cm.)
the frame: 31in. (79cm.) wide; 57½in. (146cm.) high