A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODES
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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODES

LOMBARDY, CIRCA 1800

已結束2011年10月20日

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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODES
LOMBARDY, CIRCA 1800
Each with a rectangular crossbanded top centered by an inlaid sunburst, above three long drawers with floral marquetry and printed paper-lined interiors, on square tapering legs, the reverse of one with a hand written paper label CONTESSA ALESSANDRA PIETRASANTA, COSSO ITALIA 23. PRESSO PRINCIPE BORGHESE
Each: 35½ in. (90 cm.) high, 48 in. (122 cm.) wide, 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep (2)

Contessa Alexandra Pietrasanta, neé Princess Troubetzkoy (1910-1994).

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Contessa Alexandra Pietrasanta, neé Princess Troubetzkoy (1910-1994) was born in St. Petersburg into the grand nobility of Czarist Russia. She was a grandniece of Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, the sculptor. The family left Russia in 1919, after the October Revolution, and she was educated in France and England.
She married Count Vittorio Pietrasanta and lived in Italy during the 1930s and 40s until his death, and then followed her parents to the United States.