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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Bugatti, Carlo Creator Nationality: European; French Creator Role: Designed by Creator Dates/Places: 1856 - 1940 Biography: active in France after c. 1904. Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Italy Creator Name-CRT: Carlo Bugatti Title: Cabinet Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1890 Creation End Date: 1900 Creation Date: c. 1895 Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects Classification Term: Furniture and woodwork Materials and Techniques: wood with metal inlays and painted parchment, glass doors and mirror Dimensions: Overall: 224.5cm x 141cm x 55.3cm Inscriptions: vellum panel on right side at the bottom signed in pseudo Japanese letters: 'Casati. (No professional artist of this name has been discovered; may be the work of the society woman, the Marchese Casati.) AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1984.177 Credit Line: Gift of Barry Friedman and Patricia Pastor, New York Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Context: This cabinet is typical Bugatti. In form it is asymmetrical, with a towerlike element at one side. There are Islamic-inspired ornaments in its design, notably the onion-shaped arches in the upper stage. Japanese influence is evident in the white metal inlays and, even more clearly, in the sepia-painted parchment panels in the lower portion of the cabinet. One of these, at the bottom left, is signed 'Casati.' No contemporary painter with this name has been discovered, but the Marchesa Luisa Casati, a well-known socialite in Milan, is known to have been an acquaintance of Carlo Bugatti. Although she is not recorded as having been a painter, she may have decorated this cabinet, or was possibly its original owner.The cabinet displays an extensive vocabulary of other decorative devices, including the ebonizing of part of its wooden frame, the turned and shaped wooden ornaments, repoussé metal reliefs, mirrored and green glass, and tassels. Despite their diversity, Bugatti organized all these elements into a coherent design. AMICA ID: CMA_.1984.177 AMICA Library Year: 2000 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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