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€ 40.000 - 60.000
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€ 138.290
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h cm 250x150x55
walnut-root veneered, front with three drawers plus one under top, the rappel with six drawers, the riser with two mirrored doors, finely decorated with elegant ebonized frames, the form strongly wavy and convex, the fastigium with elaborate shape, finely chiseled and gilt bronze handles and spouts, resting on shelf carved feet.
walnut-root veneered, front with three drawers plus one under top, the rappel with six drawers, the riser with two mirrored doors, finely decorated with elegant ebonized frames, the form strongly wavy and convex, the fastigium with elaborate shape, finely chiseled and gilt bronze handles and spouts, resting on shelf carved feet.
Signed on the top of the chest of drawers “ FRATRES DE VALENTINIS MEDIOLANENSES HOC. OPUS. FECERUNT AN. 1763”
Mirrors of later period.
Provenance
Semenzato, Venice, October 1984, lot 381
Literature
A. Gonzales Palacios, Il tempio del gusto, Milan 1986, vol. II, fig. 573, pag. 282;
G.Beretti, Il mobile dei lumi, In Limine 2010, fig. 42;
C. Alberici, Il mobile lombardo, De Agostini-Gorlich, 1996, publishes a similar piece of furniture, with differences in mirrors and decoration, p. 112
Specialist Notes
Not much is known about the Valentini Brothers but a corpus of furniture can be attributed to them on the stylistic basis of their particularly refined ebonized forms and friezes.
For a dissertation on their work: A. Bardelli, Antiqua Nuova Serie, La bottega milanese dei Valentini
For a dissertation on their work: A. Bardelli, Antiqua Nuova Serie, La bottega milanese dei Valentini
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