Bone parquetry box decorated in the manner of Fornasetti, Venetian, mid C20th

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Bone parquetry box decorated in the manner of Fornasetti, Venetian, mid C20th

A rectangular box with a hinged lid, the surface covered with small bone rectangular slabs laid in a parquetry technique and decorated on the sides with an architectural design in black, the interior showing the wood body of the piece. These boxes with their bone tessera like patterns combined with scenes of buildings were made in Venice probably from the 1950s to the 1970s. Some examples have a more stylised representation, as here, and some a more realistic depiction of Venetian palaces. The stylised architectural designs recall closely the work of the Italian artist Piero Fornasetti whose atelier produced ceramic vases with very similar decoration (see image 8 for an example) although it is not suggested that these boxes were the work of Fornasetti himself. The combination of building designs on a ground of what could be held to be building blocks is ingenious and the result stylish and attractive.
Size: Width 25cm, Depth 15.8cm, Ht 8cm
Weight: 1.005 kg
Date: Mid C20th
Condition: Good condition, no issues
Estimate: £60 – 80

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