AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY, EBONIZED, ROSEWOOD, MARBLE, PIETRA DURA AND PIETRA PAESINA-INLAID CABINET ON LATER STAND

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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MARGARET B. NICHOLS (LOT 633)

AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY, EBONIZED, ROSEWOOD, MARBLE, PIETRA DURA AND PIETRA PAESINA-INLAID CABINET ON LATER STAND

17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FLORENCE, THE STAND 19TH CENTURY AND INSET WITH THREE 17TH CENTURY PIETRA PAESINA PANELS

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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY, EBONIZED, ROSEWOOD, MARBLE, PIETRA DURA AND PIETRA PAESINA-INLAID CABINET ON LATER STAND
17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FLORENCE, THE STAND 19TH CENTURY AND INSET WITH THREE 17TH CENTURY PIETRA PAESINA PANELS
The rectangular cabinet with two ranges of double-paneled drawers inset with town scenes in pietra paesina and pietra dura, flanking a central cupboard door with fior di pesco marble pediment enclosing three drawers and further enclosing two secret compartments (one now lacking), further flanked by giallo antico columns, resting on double lion-cast feet the later ebony-veneered rectangular base with three pietra paesina panels, two depicting dogs playing and with a central genre scene, with a scrolling x-stretcher inlaid with a porfido verde marble, one drawer with remains of a blue-bordered label inscribed in ink 18708, and remains of a further blue-bordered paper label to underside
71.5 in. (181.5 cm.) high, 65 in. (165 cm.) wide, 24¾ in. (63 cm.) deep (2)

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Pietra paesina, the marble in the background of the plaques on this cabinet, is mined from the Arno area of Italy. Its literal translation, "landscape stone," captures its unusually colored and figured graining. These patterns were created when the stone fractured from the earth's movement and water then passed through and reacted to the oxides in its chemical makeup. The marble can then be cut in such a way to exploit these patterns, such as on most of these panels where the feathery trees in the background are part of the stone's natural composition. Small plaques of pietra paesina were popular for the decoration of cabinets and tables.

Pictorial hardstone panels, literally 'paintings in stone' and often incorporating pietra paesina, were first developed in the Grand Ducal workshops of Florence, founded in 1588 by Ferdinando de Medici. A cabinet in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence, made for the Grand Duchess Vittoria della Rovere and incorporating similar landscape panels, is illustrated in A.M. Giusti, Pietre Dure Hardstone in Furniture and Decorations, London, 1992, p. 68, fig. 43.