Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . — 6£. l^gg^c^^ .516—Sixteenth Century Florentine Writing Cabinet Rectangular shape. The oblong top is molded and the frieze, fyfiV is divided by pilasters into eight panels carved with rosetteshaving projecting knobs in their centers, and is arranged as twolarge drawers with looped drop handles of bronze. The underpart is flanked by two carved bracket supports with frontscarved in an imbricated pattern, and is divided into four moldedpane
Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . — 6£. l^gg^c^^ .516—Sixteenth Century Florentine Writing Cabinet Rectangular shape. The oblong top is molded and the frieze, fyfiV is divided by pilasters into eight panels carved with rosetteshaving projecting knobs in their centers, and is arranged as twolarge drawers with looped drop handles of bronze. The underpart is flanked by two carved bracket supports with frontscarved in an imbricated pattern, and is divided into four moldedpanels, those in the center forming hinged cupboard doors. Thebase is molded. Height, 2 feet ?!/> inches; depth, 5 feet 1 inch; width, 2 feet l1/. y 547—Sixteenth Century Bolognese Walnut Cabinet Rectangular shape, with plain oblong top and frieze divided bythree pairs of projecting dies into two drawers with raised pan-eled fronts and wooden knobs. The body is divided by threesets of twin Doric pilasters into two cupboards, having hingeddoors with shaped and raised panels. The pilasters rest uponprojecting shaped twin brackets, and these, in their turn, uponsquat turned legs of baluster shape with square molded are turned legs to correspond ai the hack. Height, 3 feet t j •_? inches; width, 5 feet inches; depth, 2 feet 1inch.
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