A NORTH ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED 'LACCA POVERA' BUREAU-CABINET SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY Decorated overall with polychrome engraved vignettes depicting foliate and floral scrolls, floral bouquets, birds, figures and pastoral scenes against a greyish ground, the upper section with two panelled doors beneath a waved pediment srumounted by three later giltwood urns, enclosing a red-painted interior with three shelves, above a lower section with fall front opening to reveal an interior fitted with five drawers, above a shallow drawer and three panelled long drawers, on bracket feet; some refreshments to the decoration, the central drawer of fitted interior with engraved metal plaque 'GREGORIO BONCOMPAGNI LUDOVISI / PRINCIPE DI PIOMBINO', the reverse with red wax seal depicting a crowned dragon 93 ¼ in. (237 cm.) high; 46 in. (117 cm.) wide; 21 ½ in. (55 cm.) deep Provenance Palazzo Boncompagni-Ludovisi, Venice, Princess Gregorio Boncompagni-Ludovisi, Palazzo Margherita, Rome, Thence by descent in the Villa Aurora, Rome. With Sylvain Levy-Alban, Paris, 2015. Private Collection.
A NORTH ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED 'LACCA POVERA' BUREAU-CABINET SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY Decorated overall with polychrome engraved vignettes depicting foliate and floral scrolls, floral bouquets, birds, figures and pastoral scenes against a greyish ground, the upper section with two panelled doors beneath a waved pediment srumounted by three later giltwood urns, enclosing a red-painted interior with three shelves, above a lower section with fall front opening to reveal an interior fitted with five drawers, above a shallow drawer and three panelled long drawers, on bracket feet; some refreshments to the decoration, the central drawer of fitted interior with engraved metal plaque 'GREGORIO BONCOMPAGNI LUDOVISI / PRINCIPE DI PIOMBINO', the reverse with red wax seal depicting a crowned dragon 93 ¼ in. (237 cm.) high; 46 in. (117 cm.) wide; 21 ½ in. (55 cm.) deep Provenance Palazzo Boncompagni-Ludovisi, Venice, Princess Gregorio Boncompagni-Ludovisi, Palazzo Margherita, Rome, Thence by descent in the Villa Aurora, Rome. With Sylvain Levy-Alban, Paris, 2015. Private Collection.
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