Antiques Chest of Drawers in Louis XVI Style Maple Italy XVIII Century - Tuscany late eighteenth century
Features
Tuscany late eighteenth century
Style: Louis XVI (1774-1792)
Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800
Origin: Toscana, Italy
Main essence: Maple , Cherry , Walnut
Material: Shear plate
Description
Pair of chests of drawers veneered in walnut and cherry. Front with three drawers, the first of which in the smaller under-top band, threaded with an arrow motif. The whole structure is threaded with maple and walnut, the inlaid maple vents were added later. Handle in central sheet metal with original rosette and acanthus leaves. Small breaks and shortcomings. Tuscany late eighteenth century.
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: 98
Width: 138,5
Depth: 61
Additional Information
Style: Louis XVI (1774-1792)
The Louis XVI style precedes by many years the coming to the throne of the sovereign from which the name derives.The renewed prevalence of the composure of geometric shapes that characterize the furniture of the neoclassical era, is welcomed as an antidote to the freer and more capricious formulations imposed by the Rococo dictates.
The artist's imagination works free interpretations derived from examples of the Greek-Roman, Etruscan or Egyptian world, from which only the architectural metrics are re-proposed with strict observance.
In this sense, it should be noted that only starting from the 1970s and 1980s in cabinet making did we witness the sunset of the pictorial flowering in inlay, in favor of models with a prevalence of geometric ornamentation.
Therefore, furniture characterized by extreme elegance and virile austerity matures.
In Italy, the Louis XVI style finds natural diffusion.
The furniture tends in the norm since the Sixties-Seventies to adopt a linear structure with a strong presence of decorations.
The use of light brown-colored woods is preferred, such as cherry.
The Italian Louis XVI will always remain linked to the production of furnishing accessories specifically oriented to the inlay typology.
These are furniture of well-proportioned dimensions, supported by the characteristic truncated conical pyramid legs, dressed in the mirrors of the top, sides and panels centered by elegant geometric decorations.
Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800
18th Century / 1701 - 1800Main 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 .Cherry
Obtained from prunus cerasus , a plant of oriental origin, it is a hard wood with a light and delicate color, with a reddish vein. Due to its diffusion and availability it was used in Europe in popular furniture. In cabinet making, in the seventeenth century, it was widely used in France and England for inlay work. In Italy it was very successful in Lucca. It was also very popular in the United States for the manufacture, from the late 1600s, of commonly used furniture.The dictionary of antiques: Eclecticism
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Walnut
Walnut wood comes from the plant whose botanical name is juglans regia , probably originally from the East but very common in Europe. Light or dark brown in color, it is a hard wood with a beautiful grain, widely used in antique furniture. It was the main essence in Italy throughout the Renaissance and later had a good diffusion in Europe, especially in England, until the advent of mahogany. It was used for solid wood furniture and sometimes carvings and inlays, its only big limitation is that it suffers a lot from woodworm. In France it was widely used more than anything else in the provinces. In the second half of the eighteenth century its use decreased significantly because mahogany and other exotic woods were preferred.Material: Shear plate
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