Live Auction 19798The Collector: Live
A SET OF ROYAL PARCEL-GILT AND CREAM-PAINTED BOISERIE PANELS
Lot 42 PROPERTY FROM THE GIUSEPPE ROSSI COLLECTION, SOLD TO BENEFIT A CHARITY

A SET OF ROYAL PARCEL-GILT AND CREAM-PAINTED BOISERIE PANELS

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Closed19 May 2021

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A SET OF ROYAL PARCEL-GILT AND CREAM-PAINTED BOISERIE PANELS
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Each fold with four deeply recessed panels with low-relief cut-gesso strapwork decoration, the reverse unfinished and mounted with iron hardware, the hinges lacking pins, the lock removed, the gilding extensively refreshed the ground-repainted, three panels with replaced base-rails, other minor restorations
Each panel: 127 ¼ in. (323 cm.) high; the two inner panels: 15 ¼ in. (39 cm.) wide; the two outer panels 17 ¼ in. (44 cm.) wide, the decorated surface approx. 63 1/8 in. (160.5 cm.) wide in total

Almost certainly Palazzo Reale di Torino.
Acquired by Giuseppe Rossi in 1978.

Specialist note

Giuseppe Rossi recorded that these panels come from the 'anticamera della Cappella della Regina, Palazzo Reale di Torino' a subsequent photograph (illustrated), taken circa 1980-90, shows them in situ in the Rossi apartment prior to restoration, Miss Rossi's records show that they were restored (probably at the Scuola per Artigiani Restauratori, Turin) in 2002 at a cost of 11.191.640 lire.
Simmilar 18th century polychrome decorated bi-fold shutters are employed in the royal apartments at the nearby Palazzina di Caccia, Stupinigi and are illustrated in N. Gabrielli, Museo dell' Arredamento/Stupinigi, La Plalzzina di Caccia, Turin, 1966, pl. 20, further closely related 18th century bifold panels or shutters, with a similar strapwork design, are illustrated in situ, A. Griseri, Un Inventario per L'Esotismo, Villa della Regina, 1755, Turin, 1988, pl. 33. A series of similar parcel-gilt white-painted narrow panels, 19th Century, sold Christie's, Paris, 24 June, 2002, lot 155 (€28,200).