A SOUTH GERMAN GILT-METAL-MOUNTED FRUITWOOD, SYCAMORE, EBONY AND EBONIZED MARQUETRY...
The two doors inlaid with knights on horseback, their interior sides with hunting scenes, the fitted interior profusely inlaid with courtly musicians and animals, the later stepped top with pierced fret mounts, on a later ormolu-mounted walnut and ebonized bone-inlaid base with spirally turned legs with an H-shaped stretcher, the reverse inscribed in white chalk '314 R.N.'
603⁄4 in. (154.5 cm.) high, 45 in. (114.5 cm.) wide, 211⁄4 in. (54 cm.) deep, overall
Provenance
Acquired from Melo Allia, Galleria d'Arte, Cantania, Sicily, possibly in the late 1970s.
The Property of a Gentleman; Christie's, London, 6 July 2012, lot 11.
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The two doors inlaid with knights on horseback, their interior sides with hunting scenes, the fitted interior profusely inlaid with courtly musicians and animals, the later stepped top with pierced fret mounts, on a later ormolu-mounted walnut and ebonized bone-inlaid base with spirally turned legs with an H-shaped stretcher, the reverse inscribed in white chalk '314 R.N.'
603⁄4 in. (154.5 cm.) high, 45 in. (114.5 cm.) wide, 211⁄4 in. (54 cm.) deep, overall
Provenance
Acquired from Melo Allia, Galleria d'Arte, Cantania, Sicily, possibly in the late 1970s.
The Property of a Gentleman; Christie's, London, 6 July 2012, lot 11.
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Time, Location
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