Live Auction 16115The Collector: English & European Furniture, Fine Art, Ceramics & Silver
A NORTH ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT WALNUT, OLIVEWOOD, FRUITWOOD, BURR VENEERED AND MARQUETRY COMMODE
Lot 56 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT NEW YORK COLLECTOR

A NORTH ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT WALNUT, OLIVEWOOD, FRUITWOOD, BURR VENEERED AND MARQUETRY COMMODE

EMILIA, POSSIBLY FAENZA, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Closed10 April 2018

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USD 22,500

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A NORTH ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT WALNUT, OLIVEWOOD, FRUITWOOD, BURR VENEERED AND MARQUETRY COMMODE
EMILIA, POSSIBLY FAENZA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular top above a frieze fitted with drawers and secret compartments over two long drawers, the sides inlaid with portrait medallions
33 ¼ in. (84.5 cm.) high, 46 ½ in. (118 cm.) wide, 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Milan, 11-12 June 1997, lot 407.

Specialist note

Colle relates this commode to another by the Faenza cabinet-maker Guiseppe Bagnara and commissioned by Marcantonio Ricciarelli. He also relates it to a suite of seat furniture grain-painted to imitate burr walnut and with parcel-gilt details supplied to the Palazzo Ferniani, Faenza (E. Colle, Il Mobile Neoclassico, Milan, 2005, p. 160).