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An Italian Florentine marble, hard stones and pietre tenere panel of the the Gran Ducal workshop, depicting a part of a tower fortification sea with a red flag and a small boat with a figure.
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An Italian Florentine marble, hard stones and pietre tenere panel of the the Gran Ducal workshop, depicting a part of a tower fortification sea with a red flag and a small boat with a figure.

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Date Florence first half XVII c

Period 1600-1750

Medium Hardstones, Lapis, Alabaster, Cipollino marble, Cornelian, Paesina marble, Fiordipesco, Tigrato d’Arno, Ebony, White marble

Dimension 24.6 x 20.5 cm (9³/₄ x 8¹/₈ inches)

Within an ebonised frame reduced from a cabinet door. The piece, manufactured in the so-called pietre dure technique, in both the choice of the stones and depiction of buildings  are very much in the style of Fabiano and Emanuele Tedesco who were working in the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in the early years of the 17th century.The panel is compounded of colored stones of various types and forms,  among them corniola for the flag,  the rocks in pietra paesina, pietra alberese (tigrato d’arno), the boat in  alabaster, the tower and little house in four different fior di pesco marbles; lapis,  white  Carrara marble; all set against a cipollino marble.

Date: Florence first half XVII c

Period: 1600-1750

Medium: Hardstones, Lapis, Alabaster, Cipollino marble, Cornelian, Paesina marble, Fiordipesco, Tigrato d’Arno, Ebony, White marble

Dimension: 24.6 x 20.5 cm (9³/₄ x 8¹/₈ inches)

Literature:
In the Florentin Zimmer, in  La Favorita castle, (Förch at Rastatt) is possible to compare a later version of a pietre dure table were insist  three similar earlier plaques  very similar to of our panel, in particulary the left plaque with same view/composition.
Anna Maria Giusti L’arte delle pietre dure, Ed.Le Lettere, Firenze 2005, pp.162-163

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