- Product:
- Chest of drawers
- Manufacturer:
- Sotheby´s
- Architonic ID:
- 4103170
- Launched:
- 1951
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Category:
- Furnishings
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Key facts
Product description
Reverse-painted mirror, walnut and brass
39 3/4 x 39 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (101 x 100.4 x 47 cm)
the top signed E. ALTARA
The reverse-painted mirrored panels by Sardinian artist Edina Altara depict the Greek hero Ulysses returning home from the Trojan War.
Provenance:
Gio Ponti
Thence by descent to his daughter
Anna Patrassi
Christie's London, 12 May 1999, lot 475
Exhibited:
IX Triennale Exhibition, Milan, 1951
Illustrated:
Domus, September 1957, pp. 26-27 (for an illustration of the piece in Ponti's home)
Irene de Guttry and Maria Paolo Maino, Il Mobile Italiano degli Anni Quaranta e Cinquanta, Rome, 1992, p. 237
Gio Ponti, 1891-1979, exh. cat., The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1986, p. 127
Ugo La Pietra, Gio Ponti, Milan, 1995, pp. 251-52
39 3/4 x 39 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (101 x 100.4 x 47 cm)
the top signed E. ALTARA
The reverse-painted mirrored panels by Sardinian artist Edina Altara depict the Greek hero Ulysses returning home from the Trojan War.
Provenance:
Gio Ponti
Thence by descent to his daughter
Anna Patrassi
Christie's London, 12 May 1999, lot 475
Exhibited:
IX Triennale Exhibition, Milan, 1951
Illustrated:
Domus, September 1957, pp. 26-27 (for an illustration of the piece in Ponti's home)
Irene de Guttry and Maria Paolo Maino, Il Mobile Italiano degli Anni Quaranta e Cinquanta, Rome, 1992, p. 237
Gio Ponti, 1891-1979, exh. cat., The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1986, p. 127
Ugo La Pietra, Gio Ponti, Milan, 1995, pp. 251-52