VERY LARGE three-body CABINET with architectural front featu - Lot 40

VERY LARGE three-body CABINET with architectural front featuring eight columns and six marble colonnettes with Corinthian and Doric ormolu capitals, decorated with a rich marquetry of grotesques, bucrania, fantastical animals, foliage scrolls and allegorical figures in ivory and semi-precious hardstones on a blackened wood and ebony background. Slightly recessed upper section with triple curved pediments, adorned with three balustraded niches and eight bronze figures, as well as three ormolu busts. Recessed middle section opens to three leaves, the middle one revealing four small drawers above a theater with a glass backdrop. Lower section opens to three drawers surmounting three leaves. Renaissance style, circa 1860 / 1880 (small chips and accidents). Italy, Milan by Ferdinando Pogliani or Rome by Giovanni Battista Gatti. H. 261 cm - W. 160 cm - D. 65 cm JB Cracks, minor accidents and missing parts Ferdinando Pogliani (1832-1899), one of the great Milanese cabinetmakers of the second half of the 19th century, specialized in monumental Renaissance-style furniture. He specialized in ebony furniture inlaid with ivory. Established first at 81 Porta Vittoria and then via Montenapoleone, he was a supplier to Italian high society. He was awarded several prizes at exhibitions in Milan in 1871 and 1881, Vienna in 1873 and Paris in 1878. Giovanni Battista Gatti (1816 - 1889), who first settled in Florence, then in Rome at the request of Cardinal Amat, specialized in furniture inlaid with hard stones. He took part in exhibitions in Paris (1855 and 1878), London (1862), Dublin (1865) and Vienna (1873), where he won numerous prizes. He was also a supplier to the Emperor of Austria and the Duke of Hamilton. Comparative bibliography : -Christopher Payne, "European Furniture of the 19th Century", Suffolk, 2013, pp. 454-455. For a very similar cabinet: -Sotheby's, London, May 12, 2015, no. 245 CITES declaration no. FR2606900163-K (species Loxodonta africana)