"Antique Fireplace Charles X Paolo Moschini '800 Ebony Elm  Lombardy, XIX Century"
                    
                    Charles X fireplace entirely veneered in elm root, Lombardy, third decade of the 19th century. Attributable to the production of Paolo Moschini, a skilled inlayer and cabinetmaker active between Soncino, his hometown, and Milan in the first half of the nineteenth century. Front with architrave and projecting plinths, connected by double columns finely fluted and embellished with gilded wooden capitals, the upper ones of which are carved with frets and acanthus leaves. Base and architrave edges threaded in amaranth, threaded column profiles in ebony. Central mercury mirror placed within the frame.