ANTIQUE ITALIAN BAROQUE CABINET CLOCK 1670 ROME ITALY

~  A Magnificent Roman Baroque Cabinet  ~

Nice clean softcover copy of "A MAGNIFICENT ROMAN BAROQUE CABINET BY GIACOMO HERMAN," by Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios and Mario Tavella.  Sotheby's, London, December 2007.  Sale LO7311a.  A whopping 68 pp. devoted to this masterpiece of Baroque cabinetry.  Fold-out illustrations.  This auction catalog is illustrated in color and generously described. 

Condition: very light wear to covers, very faint dent to page edges near top, otherwise neat and clean inside and out. 

The property of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gordon and of the York Conservation Trust, York.

A highly important Italian Baroque Lapis Lazuli and Jasper mounted cabinet by Giacomo Herman, applied with miniatures of Basilicas and Monuments of Rome, containing a virginal by Giovanni Battista Maberiani and dated 1676 and surmounted by a Nocturnal Clock signed by Giovanni Wendelino Hessler in Rome, on a sumptuosly carved Giltwood Console Table, with a Veneered Verde Antico and Lumachella Marble top.

US estimate was $1,400,000 - 2,000,000.

The catalog is divided into the following sections:

Miniatures

Four Cabinets

Inscription

A Document of Four Cabinets by Giacomo Herman

The Pallavicini Rospigliosi Cabinet

Baroque Cabinets and Giacomo Herman

Clockmaker

Gilt Metal Mounts

The Console

Notes

The Virginal by Grant O'Brien (keyword: antique musical instruments)

Appendix, duplicate text in Italian at back.

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