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Small half-moon chest.

Italy, Sicilia 1760 about

Small half-moon chest of drawers with two drawers on the front, slender and slightly wavy legs.

Veneered in walnut and walnut burl, threaded and inlaid with four-leaf clovers in bois de rose.

Green lumachella marble top embedded in an elegant border.

The refined golden hollow that refines the horizontal chains between the drawers is a habit of the Sicilian cabinetmakers of the '700.

The splendid furniture is an excellent example of the famous Palermitan cabinet-making and is particularly rare for its unusual crescent shape which makes it extremely elegant.

In fact, this is the typical "transitional" piece of furniture between the Louis XV style with wavy and slender legs, and the Louis XVI style with the movement of the crescent front, the only rare exception to its rigorously straight lines.

It is the transition between the exasperated curves of Rococo and the sober elegance of Neoclassicism

The piece of furniture is in excellent condition, it is absolutely from the right period and is authentic in all its parts.

Sicily II ^ half century. XVIII ° (about 1760)

cm. 54 x 30 h. 80
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