Luca Burzio
Luca Burzio
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Luca Burzio
38 Dover Street, W1S 4NL
Londra (ES)
T +44 750 257 1587

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Some of the rediscovered works by Laura and Luca Burzio, exhibited in last eight years between London, Paris, Bruxelles, Maastricht and New York have found their home in several important private collections around for continents including North America, Australia, Europe and Asia but most notably in twelve international public institutions including: The Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi (UAE); the Chicago Art Institute, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, the Virginia Museum of fine arts and the Toledo Museum of Art (USA); the Reitz Foundation in Helsinki (FIN); the Musée de la ville d'Ajaccio and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (UK)

G.B.Galletti. Una table en commode per il Re dal primo ebanista di corte.

La commode da centro di Vittorio Amedeo III. Palazzo Reale di Torino, 1788.

ROMAN WORKSHOP
(1621 - 1623)

Coppia di ovali in marmo del Grand Tour, con rilievi degli Imperatori Romani Vespasiano e Domiziano in marmo Giallo Antico su fondo in marmo Rosso Antico con iscrizione T VESP. AUG e DOMIT. AUG, in cornici modellate in bronzo con anelli di sospensione.

Marmo giallo antico intagliato su fondo di rosso antico nelle cornici originarie in bronzo modellato e dorato, 12 x 8 cm


FRENCH MANUFACTURE
(Early 20th century)

Scultura in Biscuit di Nettuno, manifattura di Nast, Parigi, Circa 1810.

1810
Porcellana in biscuit, 33 x 12 cm

La nostra figura appare in serie con degli elementi di centrotavola oggi al Palazzo Reale di Torino. Appartengono a due serie diverse attribuibili alla manifattura parigina di Nast. In particolare questa scultura di Nettuno appare compatibile con il secondo gruppo di sette figure, tutte di dimensioni oscillanti tra i 31,7 ed i 34,7 cm. (P. San Martino in AA.VV, Porcellane e argenti del Palazzo Reale di Torino, catalogo della mostra, Torino 1986, scheda 128 e 129, pag 296).


An important neoclassical Genoese console table

1785 c
Carved and gilt wood, green marble verde Alpi, 37,8 x 52,8 x 27,6 in

An Italian carved and gilded wood console table, with a rectangular Verde Alpi marble top above a rich moulding border, the frieze centred by a rectangular boss applied with a lion mask, flanked by panels cast with scrolling foliage and flowers. The four obelisk-shaped legs are richly carved with typically neoclassical motifs and applied lions heads, acanthus leaves, on leaf-carved capitals feet. Executed with its pair for the Giustiniani family in Genoa around 1785 by the same workshop active for the Marquises Spinola in Acqui Terme as a set of four including one sold the 10th of March 1999 in Sothebys London , lot 198, Giuseppe Rossi collection.


GIUSEPPE MARIA BONZANIGO
(Asti 1745 - Turin 1820)

The Bonzanigo self portrait

1786
Wood micro sculpture in limewood, walnut,tulipwood, ebony and fruitwood., 25 x 23 in

the oval central medallion with a profile portrait of the artist, framed by a banded and beaded oval moulding surrounded by a thin laurel wreath issuing from acanthus scrolls flanking a lion mask; below the medallion an inscribed tablet "JOSEPH MARIE BONZANIGO . SCVLPTEVR . DU ROI DE SARDAIGNE"; from the rinceaux by the acanthus two garlands with silhouetted coins link to two upright vases issuing foliate wreaths and supported by a platform of fruits and wheat sheaves; carved 1786 to one coin to left hand side;the corners with profile portraits with further smaller silhouette portraits, each side with three further medallion portraits about other artists and Bonzanigo’s royal colleagues, interspersed by lozenge panels with trophies related to Sculpture, engraving, silversmith, plastering, design and Architecture, all on a dark ground with an entwined vine frieze centred by cord topped by tied ribbon; the whole in a glazed frame.



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