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Lot Essay
With its dark and rich patina, delicate and sparse carving throughout and thin drawers to the frieze, this credenza is a fine example of late 16th/early 17th Century Florentine furniture making.
H. & F. Schottmüller illustrate a closely related credenza, its frieze centred by a Medici coat-of-arms and featuring - as on the present example - detached column supports (see H. & F. Schottmüller, Wohnungskultur und Möbel der Italienischen Renaissance, Stuttgart, 1921, p.90, fig. 207, and for a related example in the Julilus Böhler collection, p.95, fig.217). Further related examples sold at auction include a credenza sold Christie's, London, 9 November 2006, lot 319 (£78,000 with premium), another sold Sotheby's, London, 6 December 2006, lot 151 (£16,800 with premium) and a third example, Sotheby's, London, 29 May 1998, lot 43 (£14,950 with premium).
H. & F. Schottmüller illustrate a closely related credenza, its frieze centred by a Medici coat-of-arms and featuring - as on the present example - detached column supports (see H. & F. Schottmüller, Wohnungskultur und Möbel der Italienischen Renaissance, Stuttgart, 1921, p.90, fig. 207, and for a related example in the Julilus Böhler collection, p.95, fig.217). Further related examples sold at auction include a credenza sold Christie's, London, 9 November 2006, lot 319 (£78,000 with premium), another sold Sotheby's, London, 6 December 2006, lot 151 (£16,800 with premium) and a third example, Sotheby's, London, 29 May 1998, lot 43 (£14,950 with premium).