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Antique Furniture & Paintings from an Italian Estate

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 03:00 PM • Milan

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Four painted and partially gilded wooden doors, Sicily, 18th century

Estimate

€ 7.000 - 10.000

Sold

€ 11.430

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

h max cm 205; l. cm max 100 each one (minor differences)
decorated with two overlapping frames, the upper ones with animated scenes in a romantic landscape, the lower ones with a floral motif and a bird within a rocaille cartouche

Specialist Notes

For two identical doors see:


Sotheby's, London, June 8, 2005, auction LO5310, lot 24, catalogued as Piedmontese or Venetian, now in the Paolo and Carolina Zani Foundation, Cellatica (BS)
Careful analysis of the technique and a comparison with the lacquers of 18th-century Sicilian commodes point, in our opinion, the origin of these magnificent doors toward Sicily.
Reference bibliography:M. Giarrizzo and A. Rotolo, Mobili e Mobilieri nella Sicilia del Settecento, Flaccovio Editore, 1992, p. 10, fig. 3; p. 81, figs. 25 and 26