Chest Late Renaissance Pinewood Italy XVII Century - Italy Early 17th Century
Features
Italy Early 17th Century
Style: Renaissance (1460-1630)
Age: 17th Century / 1601 - 1700 , 16th Century / 1501 - 1600 , 15th Century / 1401 - 1500
Origin: Alto Veneto, Italy
Material: Shear plate , Carved Wood
Description
Late Renaissance Alto-Veneto box made of stone pine and maple, Italy early 17th century. Top with sheet metal handle, front with indented perimeter frame and carvings with phytomorphic and floral motifs, central herringbone fret pattern, all on an engraved background. Top, back and bottom in stone pine, fronts in maple. Replaced lock.
Product Condition:
Product that due to age and wear requires restoration and re-polishing. We try to present the real state of the furniture as fully as possible with photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description will prevail.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 27,5
Width: 58,5
Depth: 29
Additional Information
Style: Renaissance (1460-1630)
With the Renaissance, furniture took on architectural forms, perfect proportions, adorned with rationally arranged decorations, taken from Greco-Roman iconography.Supports and feet carved in acanthus leaf or lion's paw appear at least from the early 1560s.
Next to parallelepiped chests appear others in the shape of a classic sarcophagus, with surfaces marked by ornamental metrics rigidly regulated within pilasters and frames.
The novelty of the sculptural intaglio decoration deduced from archaeological remains triumphs, stylistic elements decoded and reworked in different compositional harmonies arranged in alternating plays of dentils, ovules, volutes, acanthus-shaped spirals, loricatures, dressings, candelabras and grotesques, and the whole relives pantheon of pagan mythology, to historize in particular chests, which the initial function of container of the wedding dowry takes over the new instance of real parade furniture.
It should be remembered that the furniture displayed was generally richly embellished with gold leaf gilding.
In the first decades of the sixteenth century, the use of the Carthusian inlay definitively declined, although even in the Renaissance this technique had great renown, just think of the activity of the Tasso workshop in Florence.
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Age:
17th Century / 1601 - 1700
17th Century / 1601 - 170016th Century / 1501 - 1600
16th Century / 1501 - 160015th Century / 1401 - 1500
15th Century / 1401 - 1500Main essence:
Maple
Hard, light wood used for inlays. It grows mainly in Austria, but it is widespread throughout the northern hemisphere, from Japan to North America, passing through China and Europe. It is one of the lightest woods ever, tending to white, it is similar to lime or birch wood. The briar is used in the production of ancient secretaires .Pine
The term pine wood indicates the essence from various species of conifers, especially Scots pine, maritime pine and pinea pine. Used since ancient times for the most common furniture, with the advent of the veneer technique, in the 1600s, it was widely used in the construction of the structure of even luxury furniture, which were then covered, decorated (in Venice) or gilded ( in England). It has a color that varies from white to yellow with reddish hues and can be both very soft and very hard.Material:
Shear plate
Carved Wood
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