An Italian polychrome-decorated and parcel-gilt bureau cabinet Venice, circa 1740, partially redecorated

Finials later. Minor old wood worm damage. Panels in doors are later, originally mirrors. Inpainting and overpaint throughout decoration. Age and construction cracks, largest ones to the exterior of the fall front and the sides of the lower portion of the bureau, some with some minor flaking around cracks. Decoration with losses, flaking, and rubbing. Nicks, dents, and abrasions consistent with use and age.
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The present cabinet's decoration relates to a small group of chinoiserie decorated ribalte con alzata almost certainly executed in the same Venetian workshop in the first half of the eighteenth century. A cabinet signed Vizzo and offered from The Estate of the late Giuseppe Rossi, Sotheby's London, March 10, 1999, lot 83 is most similar to the present example in its overall shape, the rendering of the figures and the curious fact that no scenes repeat. For another comparable probably from the same workshop see G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del '700, vol. II, Milan, 1958, pl. CDVIII.