Case Pieces

Comodino Ferrarese

17th Century

A tasty piece of furniture with an accentuated movement of the front.  At the end of the seventeenth century Emiliani region, following the evolution of taste that tended to mitigate the rigidity of square shapes , was able to create nice movement in the furniture as a prelude to the more articulated sinuous movements of the forms typically eighteenth-century.

Reference:
Mille Mobili Emiliani, by Graziano Manni pg. 90
Similiar Example Carpi Museum, Italy

Provenance:

Private Collection, New York
Le Trianon Fine Art & Antiques

Dimensions:
Height 34 in. Width 30in. Depth 17 in.

Inv#: Com65