An Italian polychrome lacquer and lacca a mecca headboard mid 18th century

Old minor, marks and chips commensurate with age. Some very minor warping and hairline construction cracks. Medium sized area of flaking to the yellow ground on left side as visible from photograph and also some horizontal construction cracks along the green border, which can easily be touched up. Some old very minor restorations which are only visible from the back. There is a construction crack to top right edge of cresting which is only visible when viewed from the side. Some very minor retouching to painted decoration which is mostly original and most charming. In overall good original condtion
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Comparative Literature:
Giuseppe Morrazoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del 700, Milan, 1958, pl. Tav. CDXLVIII for a very similar headboard decorated with vases lambrequins and cherubs (in the Ildebrando Bossi collection, Genoa).  Also see a related headboard illustrated by T. Miotti, Il Mobile Friulano, Milan, 1970, . p. 137, fig. 220, (villa Claricini, Bottenico).