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18th C. Italian Baroque Painted Credenza browse these categories for related items... All Items: Furniture: Continental: Italian: Pre 1800: item #693462
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| Exceptional 18th Century Italian Baroque Painted Credenza, with ochre and rouge faux marble to with incurved sides above a pair of paneled doors opening to a shelved interior and painted with flower filled vases. The side panels are similarly paintd and raised on shaped feet. H:39" W:5'7.5" D:24.5" Though it was in Italian architecture, painting, and sculpture that the Baroque style was evolved, Italy was not the first to apply this style to furniture. But by the mid-17th century Italy was producing flamboyantly carved, painted, and gilded furniture, decorated with such typical motifs as cupids, acanthus, shells, and boldly drawn scrolls, and was further enriching chairs and stools with fine-cut velvets and table tops with marble or pietra dura (a mosaic-like technique in which coloured stones are cut and shaped and inlaid in a design). Chairs and stools with exaggerated scrolled arms and legs, and handsome walnut and ebony cabinets and cupboards with carved decoration on the pediments, friezes, and corners and sometimes inlaid with marble or pietra dura set in molded panels, typify the Italian furniture of the later Baroque phase. This is a fine example of an Italian Painted Baroque Credenza of since proportion and being canted on the sides gives the piece a sense of scale and elegance. Located just 3 minutes south of Santa Barbara in an antique community, the store Lifestyle Antiques specializes in Italian , French and Spanish Furnishings and Decorative Arts. The elegant collection is located in the heart of Summerland, California, and offers the finest high-end European Antiques, Decorative Arts, and Home Furnishings on the South Coast. We feature a rich collection which varies from Murano lamps, decorative pillows, Chandeliers, Mirrors and a fine selection of antique home furnishings. For your convenience you may shop on line: www.lifestyleantiques.com . | ||