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Double-body Renaissance cabinet in walnut burl wood, Genoa, late 16th/17th century
h cm 177X123X56
Richly carved with full-round figures on the sides. The top features rosettes interspersed between decorative heads. The central burl panel is carved with arched architectural motifs. The chest of drawers features small arched doors on the sides. Nude figures are placed on the sides. The low body has two doors with lion-head handles on the sides, framed by female busts in the center. The feet are lion-like. We call this piece of furniture a bambocci (bambocci) due to the series of full-round carvings of full figures and protomes that adorn both the front and sides of the entire piece.
This name has ample documentary evidence from the mid-16th century to the mid-17th century.
The diffusion of this furniture took place in Genoa due to the influence of Spain and Flanders.
The Genoese magister lignaminis initially still created bambocci with Nordic or Turkish faces, with bodies draped in flowing robes and heads wearing turbans and headdresses. Later, in the 16th century, figures in Roman attire appeared.
The piece of furniture in question presents both of these characteristics, which is why we can chronologically place it at the end of the 16th/17th century, the work of master carvers who were part of the Bancalari Corporation whose foundation dates back to the mid-13th century.
In Genoa, such precious furnishings were characteristic of the Baroque period and adorned the homes of the nobles with preciousness as befitted the city known as the Superb.
The cabinet is in excellent condition, with pilasters of bambocci on the sides, both on the lower and upper body, arched carvings in the drawer with floral inserts, the doors have applied lion heads and feline feet, and at the top of the top, Turkish busts appear, which are the handles of two drawers. Female heads are applied to the sides of the cabinet, while when the drawer is lowered, twelve drawers appear, with two small doors decorated with bambocci on the sides. This work of cabinetmaking can be considered an expression of a figurative language specific to Ligurian production.
€ 8.500,00
Starting price