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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE FLORIDA COLLECTION
(LOTS 477 - 479)
This rare bedroom suite of case furniture is identical in its composition and the use of a central mythological medallion to a set at the Museo d'Arti Applicate in Milan (E. Colle, Museo d'Arti Applicate, Milan, 1996, cats. 99, 100 and 612, pp. 98 - 100, 337 and 342 - 343). Colle attributes that set to an anonymous cabinet-maker G.B.M., who signed similar pieces and who is believed to have worked in the circle of Giuseppe Maggiolini. His signatures are sometimes accompanied by the dates 1797 and 1799 and the city name 'Milano' (A. González-Palacios, Il Principe del Gusto, Milan, 1993, figs. 609 - 618). Various other commodes and tables with the identical neoclassical medallion are known and include a commode in the Durini collection (G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Intarsiato di Giuseppe Maggiolini, Milan, 1957, plate LXXIIa) and a pair of commodes and a pair of commodini with the same medallion were also sold anonymously, Christie's, Rome, 27 November 1990, lots 70 and 71.
A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN ROSEWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODES
LOMBARDY, CIRCA 1800
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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN ROSEWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODES
LOMBARDY, CIRCA 1800
Each with a rectangular top with central floral spray in medallion surrounded by a foliate band, above a frieze-drawer simulated as two and decorated with foliate scrolls, above two long drawers decorated sans traverse with a central medallion of Mars and Victory surrounded by a foliate band, the angles with a satyr supporting vases, the sides with a head of a Roman Emperor in a medallion, on square tapering legs with husk-trails and scrolling brackets, restorations to veneers
35 in. (89 cm.) high, 48½ in. (124 cm.) wide, 23 in. (58 cm.) deep (2)
LOMBARDY, CIRCA 1800
Each with a rectangular top with central floral spray in medallion surrounded by a foliate band, above a frieze-drawer simulated as two and decorated with foliate scrolls, above two long drawers decorated sans traverse with a central medallion of Mars and Victory surrounded by a foliate band, the angles with a satyr supporting vases, the sides with a head of a Roman Emperor in a medallion, on square tapering legs with husk-trails and scrolling brackets, restorations to veneers
35 in. (89 cm.) high, 48½ in. (124 cm.) wide, 23 in. (58 cm.) deep (2)