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Gilt Bronze and Alabaster Figural Mantel Clock, attributed to Francois Vion (French, Maitre 1764),
VERSACE FOR ROSENTHAL "MEANDRE" PATTERN ASSORTED GLASS TABLEWARES

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A Florentine pietre dure, ebony and ebonised cabinet on stand the pietre dure panels by the Grand Ducal workshops, largely 17th and 18th century, the cabinet arrangement 19th century image 1
A Florentine pietre dure, ebony and ebonised cabinet on stand the pietre dure panels by the Grand Ducal workshops, largely 17th and 18th century, the cabinet arrangement 19th century image 2
A Florentine pietre dure, ebony and ebonised cabinet on stand the pietre dure panels by the Grand Ducal workshops, largely 17th and 18th century, the cabinet arrangement 19th century image 3
A Florentine pietre dure, ebony and ebonised cabinet on stand the pietre dure panels by the Grand Ducal workshops, largely 17th and 18th century, the cabinet arrangement 19th century image 4
A Florentine pietre dure, ebony and ebonised cabinet on stand the pietre dure panels by the Grand Ducal workshops, largely 17th and 18th century, the cabinet arrangement 19th century image 5
A Florentine pietre dure, ebony and ebonised cabinet on stand the pietre dure panels by the Grand Ducal workshops, largely 17th and 18th century, the cabinet arrangement 19th century image 6
A Florentine pietre dure, ebony and ebonised cabinet on stand the pietre dure panels by the Grand Ducal workshops, largely 17th and 18th century, the cabinet arrangement 19th century image 7
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A Florentine pietre dure, ebony and ebonised cabinet on stand
the pietre dure panels by the Grand Ducal workshops, largely 17th and 18th century, the cabinet arrangement 19th century

Europe - Defining Style
9 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Florentine pietre dure, ebony and ebonised cabinet on stand

the pietre dure panels by the Grand Ducal workshops, largely 17th and 18th century, the cabinet arrangement 19th century
inlaid with a variety of semi-precious stones including lapis lazuli, white an green chalcedony, serpentine, fleur de pêcher and carnelian, the rectangular panelled top above a central cupboard door with a large panel of a flower filled classical urn, flanked by a pair of violet brocatelle columns enclosing a sliding interior with ebony and ivory chequered floor and mirrored panels between gilt pilasters, with arcaded superstructure inlaid with finches seated on fruited boughs flanked by turned finials, further flanked by six short drawers, each with pietre dure panels of birds, insects, fruits and flowers; above a long drawer of five further panels, the rectangular moulded later stand on spirally turned legs joined by an 'X'-shaped platform stretcher, on bun feet, 106cm wide, 36cm deep, 155cm high (41.5in wide, 14in deep, 61in high).

Footnotes

This type of cabinet, with its predominant use of ebony and pietre dure panels, originated in Florence from where these panels would have been imported. The panels were produced in the Grand Ducal workshop (originally named the Galleria dei Lavori), it was founded in 1588 by the Grand Duke Ferdinand I de Medici. Following the end of the Tuscan Duchy in 1859, the Grand Ducal workshops were used principally for restoration and many old hardstone panels were re-used and incorporated in new arrangements within contemporary furniture.
The panels depicting birds, flowers and the central lapis lazuli flower filled urn set into this cabinet recall in particular those found on the spectacular Ballyfin cabinet by Elias Boscher, circa 1660, sold in these rooms, 5 December 2014, lot 20.

Literature
Annamaria Giusti, Pietre Dure and the art of Florentine inlay, London, 2006.
-Art of the Royal Court, Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe, New York, 2008.

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Gilt Bronze and Alabaster Figural Mantel Clock, attributed to Francois Vion (French, Maitre 1764),
VERSACE FOR ROSENTHAL "MEANDRE" PATTERN ASSORTED GLASS TABLEWARES