Settee, ca. 1900

Mahogany, mother-of-pearl, brass and pewter inlay

h. 381/8 in. (97 cm) – w. 487/8 in. (124 cm) – w. 23 in. (58 cm)

Signed E. Quarti with the circular monogram

Provenance

Italian private collection – Cambi Auction, Milan,

23rd March 2020, lot 5.

Exhibited

This settee is identical to the one presented at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Quarti showed a complete salotto in the Italian Section on the Esplanade des Invalides and was awarded a Grand Prix. The same salotto was presumably shown at the 1902 International Exhibition in Turin.

Similar pieces

The settee shown in Paris and Turin is now in the collection of the Fondazione Chiara e Francesco Carraro in Venice.

Literature

‘Die Architektur der Internationalen Ausstellung für moderne dekorative Kunst in Turin 1902’, in Architektonische Rundschau : Skizzenblätter aus allen Geieten der Baukunst, volume 18, 1902, page 86.