Pair of Baroque Solid Walnut Corner Cupboards Italy Lombardia 1700
Features
Style: Barocchetto (1720-1770)
Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800
Origin: Lombardia, Italy
Main essence: Walnut
Material: Solid Walnut
Description
A pair of Baroque solid walnut corner cupboards with a broken line. In the lower part, doors with carved and framed solid wood panels. In the truncated pyramid shaped upper part, shaped doors with panels and original glasses divided into three parts. On the upper uprights walnut veneered striped panels have been applied, while in the lower part the panels are herringbone patterned. Coeval wrought iron locks and hinges. The two corner cupboards were probably part of a living room with boiserie. Manufactured in Italy (Lombardia) in the Mid 18th Century.
Product Condition:
The item shows signs of wear due to age. Any damage or loss is displayed as completely as possible in the pictures. It may require restoration and recovery of french polish.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 273
Width: 83
Depth: 58
Certificate issued by: Dott. Cuoccio Vittorio
Additional Information
Notes historical bibliographic
Similar to the structure we can find references on: Clelia Alberici, the Lombard, Publisher, 1969 Gorlich, page 113.Style: Barocchetto (1720-1770)
With this term we designate, for what specifically relates to furniture, a part of the production carried out in Italy in the period of time between the Rococo era and the first phase of neoclassicism.It is characterized by the formal and decorative structure still rigidly adhering to the dictates dear to the Baroque period (hence the term baroque) and to the Louis XIV fashions and yet the new times are captured in the adoption of smaller volumes, more decorative modules. elegant, often directly inspired by French fashion, but always executed with rigorous principles of ornamental symmetry.
The tendency to assimilate formal and volumetric novelties but not to incorporate their ornamental elaboration finds natural explanation in Italy in the fact that in this century the great aristocracy experienced an unstoppable political and economic decline.
If in the previous century there was a great profusion of furnishings destined to adorn newly built homes, to proudly show the power of the client family, in the eighteenth century they rather take care to update the building with only the furniture strictly necessary for the new needs imposed by fashion or functional needs.
The old scenographic apparatus is maintained and the new must not contrast too much.
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