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A NORTH ITALIAN TRANSITIONAL POLYCHROME-PAINTED MARBleIZED AND PARCEL-SILVERED CREDENZA ...

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD
A NORTH ITALIAN TRANSITIONAL POLYCHROME-PAINTED MARBleIZED AND PARCEL-SILVERED CREDENZA ...
A NORTH ITALIAN TRANSITIONAL POLYCHROME-PAINTED MARBleIZED AND PARCEL-SILVERED CREDENZA

Venice, circa 1760 The shaped marbleized top with a platerest fitted to the rear edge, each convex front and serpentine side door paneled and decorated with chinoiserie scenes depicting male and female figures standing on moss-covered grassy islands with mature and stunted trees, dragonflies in the sky and further islands in the distance, the surrounds decorated with ribbon-tied sprays of flowers and foliage, on short cabriole legs 38 X 651/2 X 211/2 IN. (96 X 166 X 54 CM)

$40,000-60,000

In 18th century Venice, the word "lacca" was used for both imported Oriental lacquer wares as well as for European imitations. As the fashion and demand for Oriental lacquer outstripped the amount being imported, Venice was compelled to produce its own. By the mid-18th century, Venetian members of "Il Collegio dei Pittori," decorative painters, and "Intajadori and Depentori," lacquerers and japanners, developed their own form of decoration that incorporated the Oriental, floral and pastoral
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