Pair of Barocchetto Style Frames Mercury Mirrors Italy 18th Century
Features
Style: Barocchetto (1720-1770)
Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800
Origin: Centro Italia, Italy
Description
Pair of frames made with engraved and gilded swiss pine. The two frames show a specular decoration: both have wavy edgings and are engraved with big scrolls and acanthus leaves, but placed in an asymmetrical position especially on the cimatium on which there are evgraves of rocaille patternes. The original lamp holder arms are missing. Mercury mirrors.
Product Condition:
Fair condition. Wear consistent with age and use.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 95
Width: 53
Depth: 8
With certificate of authenticity
Certificate issued by: Enrico Sala
Additional Information
Style: Barocchetto (1720-1770)
This term refers, specifically to furniture, to a part of the production carried out in Italy in the period between the Rococo era and the first phase of neoclassicism.It is characterised by the formal and decorative structure still rigidly in adherence to the dictates dear to the Baroque period (hence the term barocchetto) and to the Louis XIV fashions and yet the new times can be seen in the adoption of smaller volumes, more elegant decorative modules, often directly inspired by French fashion, but always executed with rigorous principles of ornamental symmetry.
The tendency to assimilate formal and volumetric innovations but not to incorporate their ornamental elaboration finds a natural explanation in Italy in the fact that in this century the great aristocracy is experiencing an unstoppable political and economic decline.
If in the previous century there was a great profusion of furnishings intended to decorate recently built homes, to proudly show the power of the commissioning family, in In the 18th century, the focus was on updating the building with only the furniture strictly necessary for the new needs imposed by fashion or functional needs.
The old scenographic apparatus was maintained and the new must not contrast too much.
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Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800
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