Neoclassical chest of drawers with fine inlays, marble top, Lombardy, late 18th century

Neoclassical chest of drawers with fine inlays, marble top, Lombardy, late 18th century Measurements: H 91 x W 129 x D 60 cm Price range: 18,500.00 / 22,500.00 euros Item accompanied by a certificate of authenticity This refined neoclassical chest of drawers was made in Lombardy, around the late 18th century. The piece of furniture features two large drawers and a smaller top drawer. Of great executive level, a product of fine cabinetmaking, it features careful and refined attention to detail. The walnut wood interiors are, in fact, synonymous with high quality and important patronage, as is the decoration project through veneering and inlays of excellent workmanship. Veneered with rosewood and bois de rose, it is richly inlaid with boxwood essences, with light coloring and green wood. Against a dark background, therefore, the inlays create neoclassical designs inspired by the taste of the time and the famous furniture of the Lombard cabinetmaker Giuseppe Maggiolini from Parabiago, who brought the technique of inlay applied to neoclassical furniture to the highest levels. Among the ornaments, inserted inside frames with leaves and geometric elements, we see phytomorphic and floral elements, spirals, and acanthus leaves. On the front of the two large drawers and on the sides stand large amphorae from which rich and complex spirals and racemes depart, foliated motifs that extend gracefully across the entire surface. The green wood, used for some leaves, brings an extremely refined chromatic variation. Equally precious and rare is the green wood thread that surrounds the frames and that outlines, with a reserve, the internal lower side of the furniture, below the drawer. The inlaid surfaces have also been expertly pyrographing and are in excellent condition. This technique makes it possible to create a greater definition of the ornaments and also to confer three-dimensionality and chiaroscuro to the designs. In correspondence with the undertop band, where the smallest drawer is, the decoration follows two rectangular reserves within which are inlaid spirals of leaves and flowers within a frame of stylized leaves. The corners are in the shape of pilaster strips embellished with motifs of stylized flowers. The four inverted truncated pyramid feet are inlaid on two sides. The black marble top is coeval. The handles and lock escutcheons, also original, are in finely chiseled gilded bronze. This chest of drawers is in excellent condition, ready to be placed in any environment of your home: suitable for a study or a living room, it is also pleasant in a bedroom or in the entrance, combined with antique furniture and in modern contexts.