Stock No: 13592

VENETIAN BAROQUE:

A Monumental Carved Walnut Sideboard in the early 17th century Venetian Baroque manner with a high arched back pediment surmounted by a pair of carousing cherubs above three ornate panels carved with mythical beasts, birds and scrolling foliage each flanked by four grand lion masks. The foliate decoration is echoed on the drawer fronts set above four powerful caryatid figures of Atlas and a pair of cupboards the doors, the recess and the sides of which are carved with detailed strapwork shields of game
birds beneath a series of grotesque masks.

Italian circa 1870.

This sideboard was removed from a North American mansion together with the associated chimneypiece SNo13593, see last image. Both were almost certainly carved by Italian craftsmen and probably commissioned in the late 19th century.

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