AN IMPRESSIVE ITALIAN WALNUT AND IVORY INLAID TWIN PEDESTAL ...

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£6,000 - £8,000

AN IMPRESSIVE ITALIAN WALNUT AND IVORY INLAID TWIN PEDESTAL DESK, 18TH CENTURY

Highly decorated top inlaid with moulded shaped ebony cartouches, engraved ivory with a scene from Homer's Iliad, above three frieze drawers, sat atop two pedestals with hinged cupboard doors enclosing interior shelves, both doors decorated with neo classical figures amongst a profusion of flowering vines, with decorative ebonised banding and moulding throughout, the back and sides further inlaid with neo classical figures, motifs and flowering vines, raised on later castors.

82 x 117 x 61 cm

Provenance: From a private London based Italian collector.
*** Available on request Expertise by Prof. Arabella Cifani ***

-Perito d'Arte del Tribunale di Torino:(it) "Ivory Works". Maestro Italian Ebanist of the XIX Century, after original drawings by John Flaxman RA (1755-1826)

Ivory Exemption Certificate Submission Reference: P8Y8U4BJ