AN ITALIAN POLYCHROME SCAGLIOLA PANEL ON A GILDED AND PATINATED BRONZE BASE

THE TOP POSSIBLY CARPI AND DATED 1705, THE STAND MODERN

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AN ITALIAN POLYCHROME SCAGLIOLA PANEL ON A GILDED AND PATINATED BRONZE BASE
THE TOP POSSIBLY CARPI AND DATED 1705, THE STAND MODERN
The central laurel-framed cartouche with birds and flowers and inscribed '1705' framed by scrolling acanthus issuing flowers with birds, primarily in light blue, red, white and green, all on a black ground with a border, the stand with slaves on ebonised pedestal supports and joined by a pierced stretcher, inscribed '...Simes' to the underside, the central cartouche later, restorations to scagliola, particularly to outer edges
18½ in. (47 cm.) high, 56¾ in. (144 cm.) wide, 29½ in. (75 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 21 June 2000, lot 51.

Lot Essay

This impressive scagliola panel, which probably originally formed an altar frontal, with richly scrolling foliage and flowers framing a central cartouche (now redecorated in the case of this example), relates to other scagliola panels from the Carpi region. Examples in the Chiesa Parrochiale, Quartirolo, and the Chiesa Parrochiale, Soliera, both the work of the scagliolisti Giovanni Pozzuoli and Giovanni Massa, are ilustrated in D. Colli et. al., La Scagliola Carpigiana e l'Illusione Barocca, Modena, 1990, pp. 167 and 187, while another related example by Ludovico Leoni (Carpi 1637 - Cremona 1727), in the Chiesa di S. Francesco, Parma, is illustrated in G. Manni, I Maestri della Scagliola In Emilia Romagna e Marche, Modena, 1997, p. 136, fig. 134.

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