The Giordano Collection: Une Vision Muséale Part I

The Giordano Collection: Une Vision Muséale Part I

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A set of six South Italian giltwood and reverse-painted glass chairs, Sicily, one chair signed Michele Milana and dated 1813

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120,000 - 180,000 EUR

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Description

the glass plaques imitating various marbles, with a parma silk upholstery, all the chairs with initials “PPL”, one chair signed and dated «Trapani, Michele Milana, 1813»


(6)


Height. 38 1/2 in, width. 21 5/8 in, depth. 23 5/8 in ; Haut. 98 cm, larg. 55 cm, prof. 60 cm

Probably commissioned by the Prince of Palagonia, Salvatore Gravina e Cottone (1742-1826) for the Villa Palagonia, Bagheria, Sicily.

RELATED LITERATURE

A. Iolanda Lima, Realtà/Villa Palagonia, Palermo, 1971, p.13, fig.7.

M. Giarrizzo - A. Rotolo, Mobili e mobilieri nella Sicilia del Settecento, Palermo, 1992, pp.124 (fig.78), 134-135.

A. Gonzalez – Palacios, Il tempio del gusto (unique volume), Venice, 2000, pp.402-403, 408 (fig.2).

M. Giarrizzo - A. Rotolo, Il Mobile siciliano, Palermo, 2004, pp.78-80 (fig.129).

E. Colle, Il mobile neoclassico in Italia, Milan, 2005, p.56, fig.2.

R. Scaduto, Villa Palagonia. Storia e restauro, Bagheria (Pa) 2007, p.34 (fig.26).