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A NORTH ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GREEN GLASS AND MIRROR-INSET DRESSING TABLE Venice, circa 180...

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A NORTH ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GREEN GLASS AND MIRROR-INSET DRESSING TABLE Venice, circa 180...
A NORTH ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GREEN GLASS AND MIRROR-INSET DRESSING TABLE

Venice, circa 1800 The eared rectangular top with central coat of arms, ribbon-tied reeded surround and patera corners, lifting to reveal a tripartite toilet mirror to the underside, the interior fitted with a mirrored dish, lidded pots, and pin cushions, above a guilloche and flowerhead frieze and pierced swag apron, on tapering fluted square section legs with leaf-sheathed tops, block patera collars and leaf-sheathed top feet 331/4 X 50 X 271/2 IN. (85 X 127 X 70 CM)

$30,000-40,000

Provenance reputedly the Villa Manin, Passariano di Codroipo (Udine).

Built by the powerful Manin family from the 7th century, the Villa Manin di Passariano is the largest and most extravagant villa in the Veneto (fig 1). The chapel was designed by the architect Domenico Rossi (1707-1718) who worked with the sculptor

Giuseppe Torretti (1719-1723) and the fresco painters Ludovico Dorigny and the Fontebasso. The last Manin resident of the Villa and the last Doge of Venice (1787-1797), Ludovico (1726-1802) could not resist against Napoléon Bonaparte who came in October 1797 to sign the Treaty of Campoformido, which turned Venice over to the Austrians
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