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An Italian ebony, ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, mother-of-pearl and marquetry writting cabinet
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An Italian ebony, ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, mother-of-pearl and marquetry writting cabinet

BY GIOVANI BATTISTA GATTI, ROME, CIRCA 1855

細節
An Italian ebony, ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, mother-of-pearl and marquetry writting cabinet
By Giovani Battista Gatti, Rome, Circa 1855
Surmounted by a pierced rail centred by a deer's head holding a foliate branch, above a pair of cupboard doors, each centred by a flower-filled urn, the interior fitted with pigeon holes and seven drawers, each side centred by a medallion portrait, above a rectangular platform centred by an angel, flanked to each side by a medallion portrait, the frieze fitted with a pull-out, above a drawer fitted with pigeon holes, each side supported by a pair of scroll brackets centred by a foliate cartouche, joined by a shaped stretcher
Approx. 64 in. (160 cm.) high; 43 in. (110 cm.) wide; 25 in. (65 cm.)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis
拍場告示
Please note that Mr Enrico Colle has expressed his wish to include the present cabinet in the exhibition due to take place in March 2003 at the Museo Civico of Rome on important Italian cabinet makers.

拍品專文

This bureau-cabinet is modelled on the spectacular exhibition piece manufactured in Rome by Giovanni Battista Gatti (1816-89), cabinet maker and specalist inlayer, for display at the 1855 Paris International Exhibition, and commissioned by the American connoisseur Mr. Wright Post. Gatti's achievement in gaining the First class medal in the furniture section of the Exhibition is recorded on a label pasted inside the bureau and bearing a medallion of Emperor Napoleon III. It is also very closely related to another bureau, commissioned by William, 11th Duke of Hamilton (d. 1863), who inherited Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire in 1852. It was no doubt intended as a present for his Duchess, Princess Mary of Baden, a cousin of Napoleon III, who had played a leading role in promoting the Paris 1855 Exhibition. The cabinet was sold in these rooms, 28 October 1993, lot 287 (£91,700).

For comparision of the 1855 Paris Exhibition cabinet, see C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, pp. 159 and 441.