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A NORTH ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND TULIPWOOD BUREAU
Lot 530 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 529 AND 530)

A NORTH ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND TULIPWOOD BUREAU

GENOA, CIRCA 1760

Closed7 July 2011

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A NORTH ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND TULIPWOOD BUREAU
GENOA, CIRCA 1760
Of bombé form, decorated to top, front and sides with a quatre foil motif against a quarter-veneered ground with cartouche-shaped borders, the sloping writing flap enclosing an interior fitted with shaped drawers and pigeon holes arranged around a central cupboard with mirrored door, above two short and two long bombé drawers conformingly inlaid sans traverse and with later pierced handles and escutcheons, above splayed feet terminating in brass sabots
45 in. (114 cm.) high; 47 in. (120 cm.) wide; 22½ in (57 cm.) deep

Specialist note

For a related Genoese bureau, Cassettone a ribalta, see A. González-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genova, 1996, p.247, ill.286-287. Further related examples are illustrated by L. Caumont Caimi in L'ebanisteria Genovese del Settecento, Parma, 1995, p.145 fig.103, p.153 fig. 114 (Camogli, Sinatra collection) and p.182, fig.147) while L. Canonero illustrates a further related bureau in Barocchetto Genovese, Milan, 1962, Tav. CIII.