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Rare and Important 17th Century Ebony and Pietra Dura Inlaid Cabinet, Florence

$245,000List Price

About the Item

An early 17th century Florentine pietra dura inlaid cabinet. Of architectural breakfront form, with a layered moulded cornice above the main body of the cabinet. The façade inspired by the form of a palazzo, with a central portico design having the main panel flanked by a pair of portasanta brecciata marble pilasters and a pair of reeded pink veined marble and ormolu mounted Corinthian columns, on ebony moulded and fior di pesco veneered plinths. The central portico including a large door with a drawer beneath and a drawer above. The door opening to reveal three further ebony veneered drawers, which in turn hide several secret compartments. The portico flanked by four drawers each side, each drawer with a pair of pieta dura and pietra paesina panels within ebony mouldings. The cabinet standing on cast bronze lion feet. The whole cabinet decorated with a series of 19 fine quality pieta dura and pietra paesina panels, each one depicting a separate village or country estate scene. Each panel made from numerous pieces of carefully selected colored marble and hard-stone, cut, filed, joined and applied to a slate base layer. This is an example of the finest and most important furniture of its time. The quality of the pieta dura panels themselves is superb and the fineness of the ebony mouldings bordering them is also outstanding. Pietra dura, or literally “paintings in colored hard stone”, was one of the highest ranked forms of decoration at the time and made almost exclusively for royalty and nobility. It is quite possible that a cabinet such as this, covered in scenes of various country estates, may have been made for a very important ruling family like the Medici to represent all of their rural landholdings. It was certainly made for someone of very high status and remains a highly important and desirable piece of furniture, certainly one of the finest to pass through our hands. It is also outstanding in the world of pietra dura cabinets for its somewhat restrained and tasteful design. Other important cabinets of this type tend to be somewhat “over the top” in design. Grand Ducal workshops, Firenze, circa 1620. The Grand Ducal workshops, Firenze or Galleria de' Lavori were founded in 1588 by Ferdinando de Medici. Provenance:?Estate of Margaret B. Nichols, Texas, USA.

Dimensions:
Height: 33.47 in (85 cm)Width: 57.88 in (147 cm)Depth: 20.08 in (51 cm)
Style:
Renaissance (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Ebony,Marble,Inlay,Woodwork
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
Early 17th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1620
Condition:
The cabinet comes on a simple modern stand inspired by the proportions of a period stand. The stand is 53cm deep, 151.5cm wide, 98cm high.
Seller Location:
Mosman Park, AU
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU157924493553

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