EARLY 18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO LUDOVICO LEONI, CREMONA

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AN ITALIAN SCAGLIOLA TABLE TOP
EARLY 18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO LUDOVICO LEONI, CREMONA
Of rectangular form depicting to the centre a bird perched on foliate branches within flower sprays, surrounded by scrolling foliage and reserves of simulated marble panels, the double border enclosing panels of simulated jasper, porphyry and lapis lazuli, the black painted engraving of later date
56¼ x 34 in. (143 x 86.5 cm.)

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拍品專文

This scagliola top is reminiscent of the production of Ludovico Leoni (Carpi 1637 - Cremona 1727), the younger brother of the celebrated scagliola maker Giovanni Leoni. Trained at an early age in Carpi, the main Italian centre of scagliola making, Ludovico later moved to Cremona. It is there, in the church of Sant'Agostino that a scagliola plaque on the altar of S. Antonio depicts some very similar birds standing on ribbon-tied branches. See G. Manni, I Maestri della Scagliola in Emilia, Romagna e Marche, Modena, 1997, pp. 125, n. 116. In the early years of the 18th century, he starts to incorporate the white scrolling stylised foliage around the central figure, as seen on a top in the Museo civico of Busseto, Parma. (G. Manni, op. cit., p. 126, n. 119). Ludovico frequently framed his designs with geometric panels simulating marbles and hard stones, as it is the case on the top here offered. For further comparable tops see G. Manni op. cit. p. 114-137.