A LIGURIAN WALNUT BAMBOCCI CABINET

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A LIGURIAN WALNUT BAMBOCCI CABINET
The upper section with stiff-leaf moulded cornice above a frieze with six panelled recesses flanked by busts of men, and centred by an oval coat-of-arms with rampant lion held up by two youths, above a gadrooned rim and a central architectural recess with a broken pediment centred by a cherub and flanked by two reclining youths functioning a drawer, above a panelled door with guilloche sides centred by an arcaded recess with Abraham sacrificing Isaac, flanked by figurural uprights concealing four short drawers, one lacking, the door concealing a central removable section of two short drawers and two recesses concealing eight further drawers, one lacking, and two doors above an inverted breakfront drawer, to either side flanked by a panelled drawer and a conforming architectural recess concealing nine compartments, above one short and one long panelled drawer, all with figural angles and on stiff-leaf rims, the lower section with two frieze-drawers of three panels each centred by a further coat-of-arms held up by a cherub, and a gadrooned edge above two panelled drawers with arcaded recesses and foliate spandrels, to the reverse with one shelf, all flanked by detached figural columns, above a foliate band and on two recumbant lion feet
71 in. (180 cm.) high; 36½ in. (92.5 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The decorative scheme of this cabinet is based on that of the intaglio a bambocci which was popular in Liguria and Genova in the 17th Century. A comparable cabinet with similar spandrels to the lower doors and similar warrior figures to the angles is in the Museo de Santa Cruz, Toledo (A. González-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genova, 1996, p. 53, fig. 55).

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