BY FRANCESCO ABBIATI, CIRCA 1815 (DATED INDISTINCTLY 181...)

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AN ITALIAN ROSEWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY PICTORIAL PANEL
BY FRANCESCO ABBIATI, CIRCA 1815 (DATED INDISTINCTLY 181...)
Depicting Plato within trompe l'oeil frame, inscribed in black ink to reverse ...on book of Plato, a paper label inscribed This "poker painting" was formerly the/property of Arthur Whitmore Jones Esq/of Chasleton, W. Barton, & after his death/was given to my father by his family/"in memoriam"-It hung over my/dear father's bed when he died at Leamington__F.L. Colvile, white chalk inscription 13, and branded signature PLATONE/Fran.co Abbiati 181....
22 in. (56 cm.) high, 17 7/8 in. (45.5 cm.) wide

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This rare pictorial marquetry panel is a fascinating addition to the oeuvre of the highly accomplished but little known cabinet-maker and intarsiatore Francesco Abbiati who originated from Mondello near Lake Como in Lombardy. He worked both at the court of Naples and Madrid, where he moved in 1791. The few signed pieces by Abbiati which are hitherto recorded are all small center tables and date to the the 1780's and 1790's, including an example in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (illustrated in G. Wilson & C. Hess, Summary Catalogue of Euopean Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2001, pp. 210-211, cat. 421), and a table top sold Christie's, New York, 23 November 2010, lot 274 ($48,000 exc. premium). It is interesting therefore to discover this pictorial panel, presumably designed as a wall panel (which parallels the work of the Turinese intarsiatore Ignazio Revelli who also produced marquetry wall panels), dated well into the 19th Century, which extends Abbiati's career later than was previously known.