Console Baroque Gilded Wood Itally XVIII Century

Italy, First Quarter XVIII Century

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Console Baroque Gilded Wood Itally XVIII Century

Italy, First Quarter XVIII Century

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Console Baroque Gilded Wood Itally XVIII Century - Italy, First Quarter XVIII Century

Features

Italy, First Quarter XVIII Century

Style:  Baroque (1630-1730)

Age:  18th Century / 1701 - 1800 , 17th Century / 1601 - 1700

Origin:  Lombardia, Italy

Main essence:  Silver Fir Linden

Material:  Gilded Wood , Carved Wood , Lacquered Wood

Description

Lombard Baroque console in carved, lacquered and gilded linden wood, first quarter of the 18th century. Marbled spruce top and base, the former with drip carvings; stem composed of a pair of lateral symmetrical "C" volutes, curls, leaves, shell and anthropomorphic face. The bottom is embellished with a marquetterie motif. Restorations and replacements.

Product Condition:
Product that due to age and wear requires restoration and re-polishing. We try to present the real state of the furniture as fully as possible with photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description will prevail.

Dimensions (cm):
Height: 87
Width: 105,5
Depth: 38,5

Additional Information

Style: Baroque (1630-1730)

The term derives from the Spanish phoneme barrueco or portuguese barroco and literally means "shapeless pearl".
Already around the middle of the eighteenth century in France it was synonymous with unequal, irregular, bizarre, while in Italy the diction was of medieval memory and indicated a figure of the syllogism, an abstraction of thought.
This historical period was identified with the derogatory term of baroque, recognizing in it extravagance and contrast with the criteria of harmony and expressive rigor to which it was intended to return under the influence of Greco-Roman art and the Italian Renaissance.
Baroque, secentista and secentismo were synonymous with bad taste.
As far as furniture is concerned, ideational freedom, the need for pomp and virtuosity originated a synergy destined to produce unsurpassed masterpieces.
The materials deployed were worthy of competing with the most astonishing tales of Marco Polo: lapis lazuli, malachite, amber, ivory, tortoiseshell, gold, silver, steel, precious wood essences and more, dressed the furnishings that by shape and imagination virtually gave life to the a thousand and one nights of many powerful Italians.
Typical of the period were load-bearing or accessory parts resolved with spiral column motifs, clearly inspired by the Berninian canopy of St. Peter, parts with rich sculptural high-relief carving and even in the round within a whirlwind of volutes, cartocci and spirals, curved and broken profiles , copings shaken by gables of articulated shaping, aprons adorned with ornaments, corbels, buttresses and anything else needed to move shapes and structures.
The Baroque is, moreover, the century of illusionism: lacquers and thin tempera flock to furniture and furnishings to imitate with the marbling effects of marble veins or games of precious briars.
Find out more about the Baroque with our insights:
FineArt: Il Barocco
Classic Monday: a double sideboard body, late Venetian Baroque
Classic Monday: a pair of candle holders between Renaissance and Baroque
Classic Monday: a pair of mirrors between Baroque and Barocchetto
Classic Monday: a superb Austrian Baroque console
YouTube - A few bits of furniture history ep1: the Baroque

Age:

18th Century / 1701 - 1800

18th Century / 1701 - 1800

17th Century / 1601 - 1700

17th Century / 1601 - 1700

Main essence:

Silver Fir

Soft coniferous wood, used for rustic furniture or to build the chest, that is the structure, of furniture then veneered in more precious woods. It has been used since ancient times, its most valuable use is, in the Spruce variant, in the inlays of French antique furniture of the '700 . The spruce, more typical of northern Europe, in Italy grows mainly in the Eastern Alps at altitudes above 1300 m. The noblest use of this essence was in the construction of violins, guitars and cellos: Stradivari himself produced his famous violins with this wood.

Linden

It is a soft, whitish and light wood, used in the past for inlay and carving works.

Material:

Gilded Wood

Carved Wood

Lacquered Wood

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