A fine North Italian cut-brass and ivory-inlaid rosewood centre-table By Pietro Bertinetti, circa 1838 The rectangular top enclosing a squared octagonal panel to the centre, flanked to each side by an elongated hexagonal panel similarly banded and profusely inlaid with Corinthian ornament of winged classical figures, horses, floral garlands, and geometric foliate scrolls, signed to one side under a flowering urn P. BERTINETTI. 1838./FECE. , the frieze to the front concealing two drawers with elaborate brass-inlaid escutcheons flanked by Seraphs, the sides and back with similarly decorated panelled frieze, above fluted column legs supported by winged gryphons, the side panels elaborately carved with scrollwork and moulded stretcher, joined by a foliate stretcher centred by a patera, on tapering acanthus-carved feet, the underside with two paper labels inscribed da me Pietro Bertinetti Fabricante/DI OGNI SORTA DI MOBILI MODERNI/Hella contrada di Lo e della Losta, casa Spanna. 1838 31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 58 in. (148 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76 cm.) deep
A fine North Italian cut-brass and ivory-inlaid rosewood centre-table By Pietro Bertinetti, circa 1838 The rectangular top enclosing a squared octagonal panel to the centre, flanked to each side by an elongated hexagonal panel similarly banded and profusely inlaid with Corinthian ornament of winged classical figures, horses, floral garlands, and geometric foliate scrolls, signed to one side under a flowering urn P. BERTINETTI. 1838./FECE. , the frieze to the front concealing two drawers with elaborate brass-inlaid escutcheons flanked by Seraphs, the sides and back with similarly decorated panelled frieze, above fluted column legs supported by winged gryphons, the side panels elaborately carved with scrollwork and moulded stretcher, joined by a foliate stretcher centred by a patera, on tapering acanthus-carved feet, the underside with two paper labels inscribed da me Pietro Bertinetti Fabricante/DI OGNI SORTA DI MOBILI MODERNI/Hella contrada di Lo e della Losta, casa Spanna. 1838 31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 58 in. (148 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76 cm.) deep
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