Center piece of furniture with magic lantern, Naples, first half of the 19th century

pentagonal cherry structure, with glass upper part decorated with backlit views painted in ink and watercolors on paper whose vision is made better through the light placed inside the structure. The art of "transparencies" is documented at least since the 17th century as ephemeral apparatuses for urban settings

cm 157x37x37

€ 800,00 / 1.200,00