Pair of antique Venetian corner cabinets from the Louis XIV era
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Important and imposing pair of ancient corner cabinets datable between the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, an extraordinary masterpiece of high Venetian cabinet-making entirely in lacquered, gilded and carved wood. Both come from an important eighteenth-century Venetian residence and are animated by a pleasant pictorial decoration that wraps them from top to head. In fact, there are vegetal and geometric motifs wisely intertwined to design an absolutely pleasant and whimsical overall game, affectionate but never tiring. The taste fits perfectly into the most flourishing Venetian pictorial tradition, where soft hues, such as the teal green of the background, overlap graceful patterns, precursors