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Lot Essay
Case furniture featuring these distinctive architectural landscape panels was a particular speciality of the intarsiatori of Rolo, a town in Emilia Romagna. A number of commodes featuring similar panels are illustrated in G. Castagnaro et al., L'Arte della Tarsia a Rolo, Reggio Emilia, 1996, pp. 120-141, and a further example, also from Rolo, is illustrated in G. Manni, Mobili Antichi in Emilia Romagna, Modena, 1993, p. 335, figs. 727-8.
The use of such panels was not confined to Rolo however, as a group of commodes executed in Piacenza, with architectural landscapes framed by similar scrolling foliage, is illustrated in C. Longeri and S. Pighi, Il Mobile Piacentino, Piacenza, 2003, figs. 350-364.
The use of such panels was not confined to Rolo however, as a group of commodes executed in Piacenza, with architectural landscapes framed by similar scrolling foliage, is illustrated in C. Longeri and S. Pighi, Il Mobile Piacentino, Piacenza, 2003, figs. 350-364.