PROBABLY TURIN, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A NORTH ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARCEL-GILT, WHITE AND BLUE-PAINTED COMMODE
Probably Turin, late 18th Century
The grey-veined white eared later marble top above an egg-and-dart frieze and two pannelled drawers with stiff-leaf border flanked by channelled tapering rounded angles, above a foliate apron and pearl ribbon twist border, on tapering turned fluted legs with foliate vitruvian scroll ring, the underside with traces of transit label inscribed '...Sig...Emillolie...', one drawer with blue label with indistinct inscription and with another fragment of label numbered '316', the decoration retouched
38¼ in. (97 cm.) high; 35 in. (89 cm.) wide; 17¾ in. (45 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

With its delicate carving and restrained rectilinear forms, this elegant painted commode is a fine example of Turinese cabinet-making of the late 18th Century. The most richly-decorated related commodes of this type are in the Museo dell'Arredamento at the Palazzina di Caccia, Stupinigi, just outside Turin, such as the pair by the celebrated Court cabinet-maker Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo, which is illustrated in R. Antonetto, Minusieri ed Ebanisti del'Piemonte, Turin, 1985, p. 361, ill. 534. A commode, virtually identical to the present example, with the same ormolu mounts, is illustrated in G. Wannenes, Mobili d'Italia, Milan, 1984, p. 176, and was sold from the collection of the Estate of the late Giuseppe Rossi, Sotheby's London, 10 March 1999, lot 51, (£29,900).

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