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- A Rare Italian Plaque By Giovanni Battista Gatti 1816-1889,…
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Melbourne
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29-Oct-2008
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- A Rare Italian Plaque By Giovanni Battista Gatti 1816-1889, the ebony, ivory and semi-precious stone inlaid decorative plaque,centred with a rectangular panel depicting a milk glass cameo of a garlanded young woman set within an elaborate cartouche and surrounded with floral and foliate scrolls, within a mount set with semi-precious coloured stones, above a pediment with finely inlaid ivory, lapis lazuli and a coloured central semi-precious stone, approximately 30 cm by 25 cm, Giovanni Battista Gatti was one of the most distinguished European ebenistes of the 19th century. Having studied in Rome and Florence, he worked as a journey-man cabinet-maker before establishing his own workshop at Faenza in the 1870's. Ill health forced his resignation in 1881.
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