A pair of Italian gilt-bronze mounted amaranth and fruitwood marquetry mahogany commodes, Milan, late 18th-early 19th century, by Giuseppe Maggiolini (1738-1814)
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the gilt-bronze guilloche frieze above a marquetry sliding door with ribbon-tied floral swags and central neoclassical cartouche opening to reveal two drawers, the sides with lyra-shaped gilt-mounts and ribbon-tied floral marquetry, with a veined grey marble top, with a label on one inscribed « S.M.L’imperatore e Re n.197 », with branding marks F 1387, T.C in a circle and A. and three illegible letters with the numerals 75 on one
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Height. 39 3/4 in, width. 54 3/4 in, depth. 25 1/4 in ; Haut. 101 cm, larg. 139 cm, prof. 64 cm
Palazzo Reale, Milan, commissioned by Vice President Francesco Melzi d’Eril for the Apartments of Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Italy in 1804;
Stella Bernheimer Housman Collection, New York;
From whom acquired by Dalva Brothers, New York, in 1953;
Pelham Galleries, London
Maggiolini al Fuorisalone, a cura di G. Beretti, Milan, 2015, n° 15.
G. Beretti, S. Bandera, F. Tasso (ed.), Maggiolini al Fuorisalone, (exh.cat.), Milan, 2015, n.15, pp.172-177.
En. Colle, Il mobile in Italia dal Cinquecento all’Ottocento, Milan, 2009, p. 237;
E. Colle, Il mobile neoclassico in Italia. Arredi e decorazioni d'interni dal 1775 al 1800, Milan, 2005, p. 322.
G. Beretti, Giuseppe Maggiolini. L’officina del Neoclassicismo, Milan, 1994, pp.172-177.
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