An Italian Collecting Journey - Chapter II

An Italian carved giltwood mirror, Parma, circa 1745, attributed to Antonio Vernieri (active 1739-1764)

Alternate Warehouse

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

with a pierced cresting with trelliswork ground,surmounted by a grotesque mask suspending a baldacchino, with drapery suspended from eagles' beaks, above a rectangular plate with mirrored borders, surmounted by a cartouche engraved with a vase of flowers, the whole carved with scrolls, acanthus leaves and floral trails

195cm high, 130cm wide; 6ft. 4½in., 4ft. 3½in.

Sotheby’s, Milan, Importanti Mobili, 16-17 December 1997, lot 552;

Il Ponte, Milan, 29-30 October 2003, lot 775;

Sotheby’s, London, English and Continental Furniture, 8 June 2005, lot 110.

Of similar inspiration with a trelliswork cresting, a related mirror by Antonio Vernieri, circa 1739 is in the Rocca di Soragna (illustrated in Enrico Colle, Il Mobile Rococo in Italia, Milan, 2003, pp. 306-307, no. 72). The treatment of the drapery, acanthus and bellflowers all strongly suggest an attribution to this maker. It is worth mentioning as well a design for an overmantel by Vernieri in the Museo Lombardi, Parma (Colle, op. cit., illustrates, p. 306).

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