limelight, Baroque style, walnut, cherry, maple, 1700, Lombardia, made in italy, certificate, #antiquariato, #ribalte, #dimanoinmano — With riser

limelight, Baroque style, walnut, cherry, maple, 1700, Lombardia, made in italy, certificate, #antiquariato, #ribalte, #dimanoinmanoribalta, Baroque style, walnut, cherry, maple, 1700, Lombardia, made in italy, certificate, #antiquariato, #ribalte, #dimanoinman — With alzataRibalta lift

The fore Lift

Features

Style: Barocchetto (1720-1770)

Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Origin: Lombardia, Italy

Main essence: Walnut

Material: Solid Maple , Bronze , Solid Cherry , Walnut Veneer

Description

Mobile the two bodies. On the basis of a chest of drawers slightly move with four drawers one of which is thin placed under the leaf to the fore; the lift is composed of two wings shaped in the upper part to follow the movement of the cornice in architecture. The furniture veneered in walnut has the classic frames ebanizzate that contain reserves in cherry in which they are inserted to inlay the masks of the commedia of the art, finely etched. In the flanks, alternating inlays of musical instruments to the figures of Harlequin, Pulcinella and Brighella; in the drawers in the reserves side have inlays landscape, the central repeat a seated figure. The four masks that fill the panels of the doors of the lift, among which we recognise the Trousers, the Captain, Milanese and Balanzone. The central space of the lift system is dedicated to the female figure of the Dove, in two reserves in the side, there are two baskets of flowers. The inside of the tilting door has a scarabattolo with 10 small drawers and secret inlaid with architectural motifs. All of the mobile also features floral inlays on the entire surface, while in the cornice are inlaid with a bird. Interior spruce, and knobs in bronze.

Product Condition:
The mobile has never been changed and is in the first patina.

Dimensions (cm):
Height: 241
Width: 107
Depth: 54

Additional Information

Notes historical bibliographic

This, to be placed in the last quarter of the 18th century. due to the presence of two flower baskets already neo-classical style, is of undoubted Lombard production for shape, construction, the use of wood and frames ebonized frames. It does have characteristics that suggest a Piedmontese influence, especially in parts inlaid particularly cured in the engraving, marquetry floral in taste to fill the posts and crossbar but also in the reserves in black picture frames, in the shape resemble the patterns of Web panels. The inlay of the scarabattolo presents strong analogies with a Piedmontese furniture production that the scholar Roberto Antonetto ¹ analyzes and combines in its height. among these items is the practice of recovering inlaid décor of Augsburg, sometimes parts of the cabinets, sometimes the only marquetry coating, to use it to serve Piedmontese furniture. Even in our mobile scarabattolo it looks like done with the recovery of some Cabinet probably oldest inlays of Augsburg. If then is a boundary between Lombardy and Piemonte or Piedmont a cabinetmaker who moved to Lombardy we can not know. Unusual but full eighteenth is a tribute to the commedia dell'arte in inlay outside of the housing. ¹ Antonetto Roberto, the 18th-century Piedmontese mobile 2010, 2 vols. ed. Allemandi, see pages 94-97 vol. II

Style: Barocchetto (1720-1770)

With this term we designate, for what specifically relates to furniture, a part of the production carried out in Italy in the period of time between the Rococo era and the first phase of neoclassicism.
It is characterized by the formal and decorative structure still rigidly adhering to the dictates dear to the Baroque period (hence the term baroque) and to the Louis XIV fashions and yet the new times are captured in the adoption of smaller volumes, more decorative modules. elegant, often directly inspired by French fashion, but always executed with rigorous principles of ornamental symmetry.
The tendency to assimilate formal and volumetric novelties but not to incorporate their ornamental elaboration finds natural explanation in Italy in the fact that in this century the great aristocracy experienced an unstoppable political and economic decline.
If in the previous century there was a great profusion of furnishings destined to adorn newly built homes, to proudly show the power of the client family, in the eighteenth century they rather take care to update the building with only the furniture strictly necessary for the new needs imposed by fashion or functional needs.
The old scenographic apparatus is maintained and the new must not contrast too much.
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Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800

18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Main essence: Walnut

Walnut wood comes from the plant whose botanical name is juglans regia , probably originally from the East but very common in Europe. Light or dark brown in color, it is a hard wood with a beautiful grain, widely used in antique furniture. It was the main essence in Italy throughout the Renaissance and later had a good diffusion in Europe, especially in England, until the advent of mahogany. It was used for solid wood furniture and sometimes carvings and inlays, its only big limitation is that it suffers a lot from woodworm. In France it was widely used more than anything else in the provinces. In the second half of the eighteenth century its use decreased significantly because mahogany and other exotic woods were preferred.