A Highly Rare 18th Century  Venetian Rococo Chinoiserie Polychrome Cassettone Piccolo (Lowboy), a masterful example of Venetian Chinoiserie at its exuberant best, the top featuring three vibrant figures under a smiling moon, above a rarely seen singular drawer, featuring the keyhole (and original key) set whimsically off-center to fit into the hand of an exotic “Chinese” dervish seated under a parasol and reflecting the playfulness of the finest Venetian 18th century custom commissioned furnishings, the whole with a shaped rocaille apron and raised on cabriole legs

An Important and Striking 18th Century Venetian Carved Polychrome Armoire, in powder blue, cream and ochre, with rocaille motifs and masks, with two doors opening to three movable shelves on the left and right hand sides, the whole on a plinth base. From the collection of Morandotti, Rome, with possible provenance of the church of San Paolo Converso in Milan, built in 1546-1580. See Il Mobile Veneziano Del Settecento, Vol. II, Milan, 1964, Page 186, illustrated.

An 18th Century English Ashwood Chest with hinged top and shaped apron, the interior with a modest compartment for storing smaller items

A Pair of 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Bedside Commodinos, in the Maggiolini manner and in excellent condition, with one functioning drawer above a door opening for extra storage, the top, front and sides with marquetry scenes of villages and foliate motifs all raised on squared and tapering legs

A Early 19th Century Federal Mahogany Chest of Drawers with six functioning drawers with brass handles, the front flanked by turned columns, the whole atop four legs terminating in ball feet

A Fine 18th Century Italian Louis XV Walnut Three Drawer Commode, with a simple apron and the whole raised on short cabriole legs

A Handsome Pair of 18th Century Italian Lombardy Arbalette Walnut and Parquetry Bedside Commodini, each with shaped tops and three drawers, the whole raised on flattened bun feet

A Pair of Superb 18th Century Italian Arbalette Burl Walnut Commodes in the English Taste, each with its original yellow Siena marble top, hardware and three functioning and graduating drawers, accented by chevron crossbanding, ebonized beading and a shaped apron, with the whole resting on cabriole legs and ball and claw feet

A Pair of 19th Century French Glass Vitrines with brass mouldings and engraved:”Maison Marquet, E. Alphonse & L. Haour, 21, Place Bellecour, Lyon”, with four moveable glass shelves and raised on a pedestal base

An 18th Century Walnut French Régence Transitional to Louis XV Three-Drawer Commode, with elaborate bale handles, the apron carved with floral and foliate motifs, and the whole atop short prototypical cabriole legs

An 18th Century Louis XVI Olivewood and Walnut Chest of Drawers, with three wide drawers, the whole raised on turned and shaped neoclassical feet

A Fine 18th Century English Oak Trunk, retaining original hardware

A 17th Century Tuscan Walnut Commodino, the moulded rectangular hinged top above a faux drawer (opening for storage), above two drawers with turned rounded knobs and heart shaped keyholes, the whole raised on lion’s paw feet and retaining its original hardware

An Extraordinary and Rare Pair of 18th Century Milanese Commodes, in the Maggiolini manner, in exquisite condition including the original locks and key, with marquetry scenes of an ancient villa covering the three drawers and the sides inlaid with a parquetry egg and dart pattern surrounding circular fan motifs

An 18th Century Russian Mahogany Secretaire accented with brass appliqués and surmounted by a broken pediment atop doors opening to reveal three shelves, with a shaped slant front fitted with drawers and cubbies, above an expanding slide with leather writing surface, all all above three wide drawers, the whole raised on bracket feet

An 18th Century English Mahogany Linen Press crested with denticulated moulding above two large doors and two long lower drawers, the whole raised on shaped bracket feet

A 17th Century Tuscan Walnut Commodino, with hand cut burl veneers, four drawers with original hardware and raised on dramatic animal paw feet

A Late 18th Century Louis XVI Italian Commodino (Bedside Table), with porphyry and marble veneered top trimmed in a white marble, and the whole inlaid with intricate marquetry of exotic woods

A Late Renaissance Italian Giltwood Marriage Cassone with magnificent alto relievo carved figures of Roman battles and victories

An Early 18th Century Baroque Florentine Geometric Carved Walnut Credenza with two wide drawers flanking a narrow one, all above two doors opening to storage space and raised on simple block legs

An 18th Century Florentine Three-Drawer Polychrome and Faux Marble Commode, its original finish still intact, and with two large drawers beneath a single smaller one with the whole raised on short cabriole legs

The Magnificent Early 16th Century Medici Credenza from the Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, the oldest hospital in Florence, founded by Italian merchant banker Folco di Ricovero Portinari, in 1288 (he was the father of Dante’s famous muse Beatrice Portinari), and starting in 1420 became a beneficiary of the patronage of Cosimo di Medici (and would continue to be patronized by his son Pietro and his grandson Lorenzo the Great di Medici for more than 40 years it was improved and expanded under the patronage of Cosimo di Medici through the Medici Bank’s representative, Tommaso Portinari, the great grandson of the hospital founder. Duke Cosimo I (1517-74) was a great patron of the Renaissance, spending huge sums of money on both architecture and art.

An 18th Century Baroque Tuscan Walnut Credenza with two large lower cabinets below three pullout drawers, the whole decorated with fielded panels with later period-appropriate brass hardware, and raised on shaped bracket feet

An 18th Century Northern Italian Walnut Credenza, from Reggio Emilia, a town located in the Emilia Romagna area of Italy, with three upper drawers above three cabinet doors, carved with shaped and fielded panels and with high relief trailing husks cascading down the two front corners

A French Transitional Régence-Louis XV Rosewood Parquetry Commode with a Rouge Royale Marble top, two large drawers below two smaller ones, all fitted with ormolu brass pulls and escutcheons, and with conforming ormolu mounts at the apron and on the feet

An Extraordinary Early 18th Century Genovese Four-Drawer Walnut Commode, the top shaped with coved corners above three large drawers and one shallow drawer at the bottom, accented with an intricately carved apron and all raised on lion paw feet

An 18th Century French Mahogany and Bronze Doré Bookcase of neoclassical form with three sections each with four shelves

A Magnificent Pair of 18th Century Polychrome Serpentine Credenzas, each with two doors

A 17th Century Italian Walnut Credenza, with two drawers and two doors flanked by pilasters and raised on bracket feet

An 18th Century Tuscan Lacca Povera Credenza, polychromed and adorned with fanciful hand-colored decoupage images of the Italian aristocracy

An 18th Century French Louis XV Red Chinoiserie Three-Drawer Commode

A Sophisticated 18th Century Sicilian Rosewood Parquetry Commode with ormolu chutes and mounts, arbalette form, and Siena marble top