Living Room Art Nouveau Carlo Zen

18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Sideboard with a semi-circular front. Supported by four truncated pyramid shaped uprights with vase-shaped feet, it has a narrow under the top drawer in the middle part, while there are two more thin drawers on the sides, under which there are two larger service drawers, on the corners there are two decorated doors that imitate the front of the drawers. Mahogany with mahogany feather banded veneer in the front, with maple and ebony threading, a carved maple reserve decorates the uprights; the drawers and the doors are enriched with an ebony thread on the edges, as well as the border of the mahogany head of the top; the top is a single mahogany board. The handles are gilded bronze pendants with a central rosette. On the back of the top there are inserts for the fastening of the brass beams that were supposed to hold the lights and other service equipment.

Japanned longcase

Tower clock lacquered with gilded chinoiserie and polychrome on a green lacquered background. The trunk stands on a large plinth and has a central door crowned on the top and frame by a rich moulding; iside is painted a landscapee with pagodas in a garden where we can meet huma figures in domestic scenes revived by beautiful volatiles, a rich triage enriches the lateral reserves; the tank containing the machanism also has a central crowned door with glass with a hat going up as a pagoda again decorated with landscapes and flowers, on the sides there are dence plant decorations. The 8 days movement relized by Thomas Phippard hits the hours on a bell; it has a brass quadrant with a silvered brass ring with roman numbers for hours and arabic numbers for minutes; there is also an elaborated brass center carved with leaves that contains the vise whit a small hand for seconds; the blued steel hands hare finely made. The fabrication name an the place onf making are engraved on a silver plate placed above the compartment where ther are the lunar dates. The brass vise is enriched by chiselled bronzes and gilded in the corners, it opens up on the upper part giving space to a cobalt night sky on which is painted a vassel