Neoclassical Walnut Chest of Drawers - Emilia Last Quarter 18th Century

Italy, Early XVIII Century

Antique case, inverted truncated pyramid structure rests on four curved feet carved with scrolls and leaves, as do the uprights. Side panels are carved with ears of wheat and grape vines, while the aprons and cornices are carved with leaves and scrolls. Central panel with an open compartment surmounted by a pair of winged cherubs, bunches of grapes, and intertwined garlands on the sides. Floral carvings on the apron and scrolls on the cornice. Italy, first half of the 18th century.

Italy, Early XVIII Century

Pair of baroque columns, on the front they are decorated with a large carved coat of arms, partially gilded and lacquered. The coat of arms is inserted between baroque scrolls composed of curls and festoons and refers to the Soldani-Benzi family, originally from Montevarchi but also based in Florence in Santa Croce. The columns, from the Baroque period, correspond to the life period of the famous Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1656-1740), Florentine painter, sculptor and medallist. Lacquered and gilded with a mission, they bear the family coat of arms as described in the Florentine state archives, Quartered: in the 1st of silver, with two raised bands of azure; in the 2nd party, a/ of azure, with a darting dolphin in a pale of gold, b/ banded ruffled of azure and gold; in the 3rd of azure, with three bands of gold each charged with three roses of red; in the 4th of silver, with a reversed chevron of red. Resumptions in the lacquering and gilding

Italy, Early XIX Century

Empire secretaire made in Milan in the early 19th century in walnut veneered in mahogany and mahogany feather; on the front three drawers in the base body and in the upper part a flap door with a thin drawer under the top, contained between two pilasters with gilded bronze feet at the base and a female protome at the capital; the door with a mechanism with counterweights that accompanies the movement has a cabinet composed of open letter holders and six small drawers with a finely chiseled and gilded lion-shaped handle, all hiding complex and numerous secret compartments. Finely chiseled and gilded gilded bronze escutcheons. The bronzes are of a quality that in Milan can be attributed to the Manfredini brothers. Square plinth feet.

England First Quarter XIX Century

Pair of tripods supported by saber-shaped uprights with lion feet, are connected by a small hexagonal shelf in the lower part; above, they frame a top that is also hexagonal, with a high band adorned with rosette carvings, also re-proposed on the top of the uprights. Rosewood.

Italy, Late XVIII Century

Neoclassical bedside table, late 18th century, Lombardy. The piece of furniture is veneered in citronnier, maple, boxwood and other light woods for the inlays; both the front where the door is housed and the sides are made with a lowered central panel in citronnier, with an octagonal reserve in the centre enclosed by a moulded and inlaid frame; the reserves on a maple background have an architectural inlay with capricci, temples, statues and figures. The panels are inserted in a double frame with a brass-plated frame and citronnier veneer arranged head-on and in a herringbone pattern. An inlaid frame in the base delimits the four truncated pyramid feet and another supports the top in which a top in green alps marble is set. Missing parts and restorations, walnut interior. The piece of furniture is similar to the production of Giovanni Maffezzoli although it does not reach the quality of the Cremonese master in inlay.

Great living room cabinet of Italian manufacture of the 20th century. Made of blond mahogany, it has a paneling in wavy wood, a large central mirror and a buffet with three drop-down doors inside which there are glass shelves. Embellished with a base in brass-plated aluminum that follows the low profile of the furniture. Restored

Inlaid cabinet

Wardrobe with one door and a drawer. It appears architecturally as a plinth with a rectangular base on vase-like feet and marked on the top with a light frame. To break the architectural balance there are two twisted all round columns siding the door made with a big framed mercury mirror. The entire surface is made with rosewood with Brazilian rosewood reserves and refined inlays of "antemi" and spirals that are repeated on the framing bands of the reserves; on the top frame is inlaid a Greek fret; the inlaid frame of the door marks the mirror with a finely inlaid and gilded moulding. Light maple frames interrupt the ones made with rosewood and Brazilian rosewood while there is gold in the inlay of the door but also in the bronzes that complete the bases and the capitals of the columns and in the locks. The lock is marked F.Vago in Milan.

Ferrara, Mid XVIII Century

Baroque sideboard made in Ferrara supported by cabriole feet, has a wavy front in which there are pairs of doors and drawers in the band: a large central one and two smaller lateral ones; the sides are also wavy and are equipped with a door each. On the top rests a riser with a shelf that can be opened giving access to the internal compartment, to which galvanized tanks have been added to allow it to be used as a planter; in walnut, the interiors are in fir. The piece of furniture has small restorations and replacements in the construction part of the drawers, in the rear strip and in the hinges of the shelf to allow the aforementioned transformation, in the hardware and in a handle of one of the two side doors.

Emilia Romagna, XVII Century

Double body sideboard with two paneled doors in the lower part and the same number in the upper part, turned knobs.