Empire Chest of Drawers Walnut Manufactured in Italy Early 1800s
Features
Style: Empire (1804-1815)
Age: 19th Century / 1801 - 1900
Origin: Italy
Main essence: Walnut
Material: Walnut Feather Banded Slab
Description
An elegant Empire chest of drawers, three drawers plus a slightly jutting one under the top. Uprights with columns and chiseled bronze capitals, plinth feet. Walnut top with band. Front slabbed with cathedral walnut veneer. Manufactured in Italy, early 19th century.
Product Condition:
Fair condition. Wear consistent with age and use. Any damage or loss is displayed as completely as possible in the pictures.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 92,5
Width: 124,5
Depth: 58,5
Additional Information
Style: Empire (1804-1815)
Decorative style of the furniture that is affirmed under the Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte, that is, between 1799, the year of his election as consul, and 1815, the year of his definitive defeat.It has many elements of continuity with the previous Direttorio style, in the more general Neoclassical climate, which derived from the study of classical antiquity the forms and models to be inspired in the creation of furniture.
The peculiar feature of this style is a greater grandeur and courtesy of the furnishings, which had to convey the grandeur of the French nation to the world, hence the name Empire style.
The furniture is characterized by straight, majestic and massive lines, adorned with motifs dear to Napoleon such as bees, eagles, large Ns surrounded by laurel, and, after the Egyptian campaign, many elements taken from Egyptian art.
He prefers the flat bronze decorations, often gilded, to the refined carvings of previous years.
The typical essence of Empire furniture is mahogany.
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