Neoclassical Game Table Italy Last Quarter XVIII Century

Small table attributable to the workshop of Giuseppe Colombo known as Mortarino. Four elegantly turned and tapered walnut legs support a high band with a drawer, subtended by small brackets with an inlaid rosette; the entire surface is veneered in walnut and enriched with rosewood fillets with boxwood inlays, on the quadripartite walnut top is an inlaid rosette with a panoply of musical instruments and score. A secret spring behind the drawer unlocks the catch that allows the top to rotate and open; in the center of the double top is another inlaid rosette with a military panoply. Interior in fir, the piece of furniture bears an old label from the antique dealer "AGG Subert". The color of the wood, the type of fillets and the elegantly crafted panoplies with burin embroidery present close assonances with the two chests of drawers of Palazzo d'Arcò and with the flap with the arms of the Barbiano di Belgioioso.