THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A VICTORIAN GILT METAL AND PIETRA DURA MOUNTED EBONISED SIDE CABINET
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Of broken D-shaped outline with a varigated marble top and a frieze centred by a pair of dwarfs and with birds, flowers and fruit all within foliate-wreathed cartouches, the panelled centre door further depicting perching birds and flowers and with mask cartouches to the corners and escutcheon, flanked on each side by a curved glazed and foliate-mounted door enclosing velvet lined shelves, the stiles with foliate and bearded mask clasps, swags and foliate wrapped columns, raised on a plinth base with further rosette clasps
50in. (127cm.) high, 67in. (170cm.) wide, 21½in. (52cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The images of dwarfs are taken from designs by Baccio del Bianco (1604-54) and Jacques Callot 1592/3-1635). The former worked extensively in the Medici court on furniture, mosaics and interiors, while Callot's celebrated series of engravings Varie figure Gobbi di Iacopo Callot fatto in Firenza Ianno 1616, shows a 16th century travelling troupe of performing dwarfs who were at the court of Cosimo II at the same time as Callot.
The two figures depicted here also appear in a table from the Gilbert Collection, formerly in the collections of Edmond and Alfred de Rothschild at Halton House, Bucks. See Anna Maria Massinelli, Hardstones, London, 2000.

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