MID-18TH CENTURY, LOMBARDY

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AN ITALIAN WALNUT BUREAU
MID-18TH CENTURY, LOMBARDY
With ebonised mouldings, the superstructure fitted with a drawer to either end, the shaped fall enclosing a fitted interior with six drawers, the long drawer and three breakfront drawers below on tapered feet, later handles
46 in. (117 cm.) high; 43 in. (109 cm.) wide; 20½ in. (52 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This bureau with raised scrolling ebonised cartouches framing panels of richly grained walnut, is typical of Lombardy cabinet-work of the mid-18th Century. Other related full-scale bureaux and commodes with similar ebonised scrollwork are illustrated in S. Colombo, L'Arte del Legno e del Mobile in Italia, Milan, 1931, figs. 389-94.

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