SOLD. A pair of Venetian walnut and giltwood display cabinets. Italy, mid-19th century. H. 254 cm. W. 112 cm. D. 44 cm. (2)

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A pair of Venetian walnut and giltwood display cabinets carved all over in Renaissance style, each top with an openwork carving of a doge's hat above a crest of the Mocenigo family, flanked by dragons and four eagels, front with glass doors enclosing curved shelves flanked by satyr masks, putti and foliage, the lower part with two panelled cabinet doors with large putti in relief with plaques with the inscription 'IN DEO/SPERAVI' (IN GOD HAVE I TRUSTED). Italy, mid-19th century. H. 254 cm. W. 112 cm. D. 44 cm. (2)

The crest under the doge's hat is of the Venetian Mocenigo family, who between the 15th century and 1778 delivered six doges and many statesmen and soldiers. The most recent was Alvise IV Mocenigo, doge in the years 1763–1778.

A pair of identical cabinets but with a different crest in the collection of the late Sir William Pennington-Ramsden, 7th Baronet (1904–1986) at Muncaster Castle, northwest England.

Provenance: The collection of the late Erik Fischer (1920–2011). The Danish art historian and inspector at the Royal Copperplate Collection at the Statens Museum for Kunst, the National Gallery of Denmark from 1948 and chief inspector at the same institution from 1964 to 1990.

Condition

Condition report on request. Please contact: furniture@bruun-rasmussen.dk

Auction

Furniture, carpets, silver, ceramics & glass, 4 December 2020