TREASURES FROM MEDIEVAL TO BAROQUE ART
Lot 355:
In curly rosewood marquetry with eight chests of drawers, richly decorated with painted crystals representing mythological scenes. In the central chest of drawers we observe six painted crystals topped by an angel at the top of the tabernacle. Neapolitan work from the end of the 17th century, later table and 19th century. Cabinet measurements: 97 x 170 x 111. Table measurements: 81 x 196 x 80 cm. Reference Literature: Enrico Colle, Il Mobile Barocco in Italia, Milan, 2000, pp. 66-67.Luis Feduchi, History of Spanish Furniture Styles, Barcelona, 1969, sheets 296 and 297. Alvar González-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, le arti decorative in Italia fra classicismi e barocco Roma e il Regno delle Due Sicilie , Milan, 1986, Vol. II, p.169, fig. 384. Several cabinets of this style are known, among them a cabinet with spirally turned support legs preserved in the Perelada Palace, Gerona, with glass panels painted with mythological scenes, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., p. 212, fig. 185. a piece of furniture from the Barberini Palace, Rome, illustrated by AGP, op. cit., fig. 384 and by Colle, op. cit., no. 14, p. 66. a pair of cabinets in the collection of the Marquis de Campo-Franco, Palma de Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., figs. 296 and 297. two cabinets from the Son-Veri collection, Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., figs. 299 and 300. a cabinet in the Palacio Vivó in Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, ibid, fig. 301; another similar cabinet in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Provenance: important Spanish private collection. with the glass panels painted with mythological scenes, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., p. 212, fig. 185. a piece of furniture from the Barberini Palace, Rome, illustrated by AGP, op. cit., fig. 384 and by Colle, op. cit., no. 14, p. 66. a pair of cabinets in the collection of the Marquis de Campo-Franco, Palma de Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., figs. 296 and 297. two cabinets from the Son-Veri collection, Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., figs. 299 and 300. a cabinet in the Palacio Vivó in Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, ibid, fig. 301; another similar cabinet in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Provenance: important Spanish private collection. with the glass panels painted with mythological scenes, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., p. 212, fig. 185. a piece of furniture from the Barberini Palace, Rome, illustrated by AGP, op. cit., fig. 384 and by Colle, op. cit., no. 14, p. 66. a pair of cabinets in the collection of the Marquis de Campo-Franco, Palma de Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., figs. 296 and 297. two cabinets from the Son-Veri collection, Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., figs. 299 and 300. a cabinet in the Palacio Vivó in Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, ibid, fig. 301; another similar cabinet in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Provenance: important Spanish private collection. p. 66. a pair of cabinets in the collection of the Marquis de Campo-Franco, Palma de Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., figs. 296 and 297. two cabinets from the Son-Veri collection, Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., figs. 299 and 300. a cabinet in the Palacio Vivó in Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, ibid, fig. 301; another similar cabinet in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Provenance: important Spanish private collection. p. 66. a pair of cabinets in the collection of the Marquis de Campo-Franco, Palma de Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., figs. 296 and 297. two cabinets from the Son-Veri collection, Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, op. cit., figs. 299 and 300. a cabinet in the Palacio Vivó in Mallorca, illustrated by Feduchi, ibid, fig. 301; another similar cabinet in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Provenance: important Spanish private collection.
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