Neo-Renaissance Style Cupboard, Walnut, Italy, 20th Century
Features
Style: Neo-Renaissance Revival
Age: 20th Century / 1901 - 2000
Origin: Italy
Main essence: Walnut
Description
The base has frames engraved with leafy scrolls and grotesque faces at the corners. Two pairs of frontal doors inlaid with preted architectual recesses inhabited by classical figures alternating with telamons and caryatids which act as pillars and support a shelf with a dice on which are engraved two male and female faces. On the flat surface stands an extention with folding door inlaid with a freize that represents a procession of putti, surmounted by two doors with glass adorned with a iron grill with leafy patterns. The pillars are shaped as two couples of putti tah support refined columns and the corinthian capital that hold the upper cap. Spider web keys.
Product Condition:
Fair condition. Wear consistent with age and use.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 268
Width: 230
Depth: 75
Additional Information
Style: Neo-Renaissance Revival
Stylistic revival, from the 1900s, of the forms typical of the Renaissance style.This is a style that re-proposes, looking at the grandeur of the past, decorative motifs and decorations typical of the 1500s.
Mascheroni, cornices, columns carved with herms that make up typical architectural structures of Renaissance palaces, are the elements that characterize the Neo-Renaissance style.
These elements will remain in the production of furniture until the early 1900s, contaminating themselves with floral elements.
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