Antique Baroque Chest of Drawers Fir Marble Top XVIII Century - Sicily, XVIII Century
Features
Sicily, XVIII Century
Style: Barocchetto (1720-1770)
Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800
Origin: Sicilia, Italy
Main essence: Silver Fir
Material: Brazilian Rosewood Slab , Mahogany Slab
Description
Baroque chest of drawers in fir veneered in rosewood and mahogany. Front and sides are curved as is the balustrade, front with three drawers alternating with Spanish paper gouges, escutcheons, handles and applications in burnished metal. Grey marble top. Missing parts. Sicily, 18th Century.
Product Condition:
Product that due to age and wear requires restoration and polishing. We try to present the real condition of the furniture as completely as possible with the photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description is valid.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 104,5
Width: 132,5
Depth: 63
Additional Information
Style: Barocchetto (1720-1770)
This term refers, specifically to furniture, to a part of the production carried out in Italy in the period between the Rococo era and the first phase of neoclassicism.It is characterised by the formal and decorative structure still rigidly in adherence to the dictates dear to the Baroque period (hence the term barocchetto) and to the Louis XIV fashions and yet the new times can be seen in the adoption of smaller volumes, more elegant decorative modules, often directly inspired by French fashion, but always executed with rigorous principles of ornamental symmetry.
The tendency to assimilate formal and volumetric innovations but not to incorporate their ornamental elaboration finds a natural explanation in Italy in the fact that in this century the great aristocracy is experiencing an unstoppable political and economic decline.
If in the previous century there was a great profusion of furnishings intended to decorate recently built homes, to proudly show the power of the commissioning family, in In the 18th century, the focus was on updating the building with only the furniture strictly necessary for the new needs imposed by fashion or functional needs.
The old scenographic apparatus was maintained and the new must not contrast too much.
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Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800
18th Century / 1701 - 1800Main 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.Material:
Brazilian Rosewood Slab
Mahogany Slab
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