VENICE, MID-18TH CENTURY, LARGELY REDECORATED AND WITH LATER TOPS

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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED COMMODINI
VENICE, MID-18TH CENTURY, LARGELY REDECORATED AND WITH LATER TOPS
Each decorated with floral sprays and garlands and with serpentine-fronted simulated marble top above a shaped frieze fitted with a drawer and two bombé-shaped drawers decorated with masked figures within scrolling foliate borders and rockwork-carved edges, the sides decorated similarly, the shell-carved angles reaching to acanthus-carved feet, the drawers partially relined and with later handles, one drawer with metal inventory label 'LK7196'
32 in. (81 cm.) high; 25 in. (64 cm.) wide; 16 in. (41 cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

Related examples are illustrated in S. Levy, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento, Milan, 1996, vol.1, pl. 121 and 144, and G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del'700, Milan, 1958, vol.II, pl. CDXXXII. A further related pair of commodini was sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 30-31 March 2004, lot 495.

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