Piece of furniture in two parts

This
piece of furniture imitates seventeenth-century cabinets and furniture in two
parts and bears witness to the special attention given to wood inlay in
Lombardy in the second half of the nineteenth century. From 1840, a fashion for stylistic revivals
spread across Europe to Italy, which had just achieved political unity and, in
the search for a recognisable unitary style, was looking to the past to create
a new one. The
materials used for the table are particularly precious: ebonised wood, lapis
lazuli, amber and semi-precious stones. It was purchased by the civic collections of Milan in 2001.