A DUTCH IVORY, MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD, EBONY AND EBONISED CASKET

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A DUTCH IVORY, MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD, EBONY AND EBONISED CASKET
Inlaid to the top and all the sides with scrolling flowers and foliage, some of the ivory stained green, the moulded hinged rectangular top centred by a dancing harlequin, the interior of the top with a later pencil sketch of two portrait profiles, on a moulded base, restorations
4¼ in. (11 cm.) high; 13½ in. (34.5 cm.) wide; 11 in. (28 cm.) deep

拍品专文

A casket with similar inlay to the sides but with a floral and foliate top bearing the inventory stamp of the Borbone's, is in the Soprintendenza Beni artisitci e storici del Veneto, Venice (G. Crillo and G. Godi, Il Mobile a Parma fra Barocco e Romanticismo 1600-1860, Parma, 1983, p. 96, fig. 219). That casket is loosely attributed to the Uffizi workshops under the direction of Gianbattista Foggini (d. 1725) and in particular to the Dutch immigrant specialist inlayer Leonardo van der Vinne, although it is also related to French and Dutch works. A further related box attributed to van der Vinne is illustrated in A. González-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1986, fig. 69.