EBONY, ROSEWOOD, GILDED COPPER, ENAMEL AND CORAL COIN CABINET, TRAPANI, 18TH CENTURY of architectural form and worked with guillochè frames, ornamented with rich gilded copper plate mounts and dense coral ramage worked with the technique of back-mounting, floral friezes in enamel, front marked out by two rows of drawers, central temple door with two concealed drawers and three other smaller ones inside, bulbous feet, the sides centred by a mixtilinear reserve in low relief; flaws and a few scratches, minor felures in the veneer, a few portions of the frame missing, minor flaws and losses in some coral and enamel elements, locks and latches to be rectified, the backrest with restorations and possible part replaced H 60.5 cm, W 102.5 cm, D 36.5 cm AN EBONY, ROSEWOOD AND GILT COPPER, ENAMELS AND CORAL CABINET, TRAPANI, 17TH CENTURY; DEFECTS, MINOR SCRATCHES, MINOR DAMAGES, SOME MISSING PARTS, MINOR DEFECTS, SOME MISSING CORALS AND ENAMELS, LOCKS TO BE FIXED, BACK WITH RESTORATIONS AND PROBABLE SUBST Provenance: Catania, private collection Bibliography: M. C. Di Natale, Splendours of Sicily. Arti decorative dal Rinascimento al Barocco, exhibition catalogue edited by, Milan 2001, p. 59, fig. 64 AA. VV., I grandi capolavori del Corallo. I coralli di Trapani del XVII-XVIII secolo, exhibition catalogue edited by, Cinisello Balsamo 2013, cover and p. 67, no. 2 Reference bibliography: AA. VV., L'arte del corallo in Sicilia, exhibition catalogue edited by, Trapani Museo Pepoli 1 March ; 1 June 1986, Palermo 1986, ad vocem E. Colle, Il mobile Barocco in Italia, Milan 2000, p. 50 M. C. Di Natale, Splendours of Sicily. Arti decorative dal Rinascimento al Barocco, exhibition catalogue edited by, Milan 2001, p. 468, n. 3 AA. VV., Rosso Corallo. Arti preziose della Sicilia barocca, exhibition catalogue edited by, Cinisello Balsamo 2008, ad vocem C. Del Mare, M. C. Di Natale, Mirabilia coralli. Capolavori barocchi in corallo tra maestranze ebraiche e trapanesi, exhibition edited by, Naples 2009, ad vocem AA. VV., I grandi capolavori del Corallo. I coralli di Trapani del XVII-XVIII secolo, exhibition catalogue edited by, Cinisello Balsamo 2013, pp. 68-70, nn. 3-5