AN ITALIAN CARRUBO BUREAU-CABINET

VENETO OR EMILIA-ROMAGNA, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN CARRUBO BUREAU-CABINET
VENETO OR EMILIA-ROMAGNA, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The waved broken swan's neck crest with urn-form finial above a pair of arched mirrored doors enclosing a fitted interior over an outset case with a fall-front writing-surface enclosing a further fitted interior above three serpentine drawers, on bracket feet, reverse of upper and lower sections each with a printed shipping label to reverse COMMUNE DI MILANO, later finials, minor replacements to veneers and moldings, interior section of top largely replaced, mirror plates apparently original
101½ in. (258 cm.) high, 40½ in. (103 cm.) wide, 22¾ in. (58 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Milan, 10 June 2002, lot 322.

Lot Essay

This bureau-cabinet with its use of the highly figured carrubo wood relates to a bureau, also veneered in carrubo, from Emilia, which is illustrated in G. Manni, Mille Mobili Emiliani, Modena, 1983, p. 89, fig. 180. The overall shape further relates to a walnut bureau-cabinet attributed to Ferrara and illustrated in M. Agnelli, ed., Mobili Italiani del Settecento, Milan, 1990, p. 95, which has a similar broken pediment interspersed with urn finials, while another championing a very similar drawer shape and a single arched door surmounted by such a broken pediment with urn finials, from Bologna, is is illustrated in G. Manni, Mobili in Emilia, Modena, 1986, p. 338.

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