Contemporary Artwork G. Pardi 1969 Untitles Inkwell on Paper - Study for Sculpture 1969

Italy XVI - First Half XVII Century

Small Mannerist frame in ebony with commissary marble, Italy 16th - first half 17th century. Molded perimeter with protruding sections at the corners, 4 reserves in violet stain slab marble, molded octagonal frame placed in the center originally decorated with 4 small turned elements on the sides, 2 present with lacks while 2 completely absent, oval light. Restoration interventions of the late nineteenth century, added the oak bottom and replaced some ebony frames.

Lombardy First Quarter 19th Century

Lombard fireplace in walnut, with ebonized and gilded parts. In the lower part a base with a broken plinth, with ebonized reserves delimited by carved strokes with successive leaflets and gilded with leaf. In the upper part, a central door with a mercury mirror, with a golden groove between two frames with successive leaves, also re-proposed more externally. The door is framed between two tapered and ebonized pilasters, with a capital carved with gilded acanthus leaves, to support the broken entablature and adorned with pods, leaflets and gilded acanthus leaves, alternating with a walnut band and a notched frame.

Lombardy, XIX Century

Charles X fireplace entirely veneered in elm root, Lombardy, third decade of the 19th century. Attributable to the production of Paolo Moschini, a skilled inlayer and cabinetmaker active between Soncino, his hometown, and Milan in the first half of the nineteenth century. Front with architrave and projecting plinths, connected by double columns finely fluted and embellished with gilded wooden capitals, the upper ones of which are carved with frets and acanthus leaves. Base and architrave edges threaded in amaranth, threaded column profiles in ebony. Central mercury mirror placed within the frame.