Lot 120: AN IMPORTANT AND MONUMENTAL FRAMED FLORENTINE PIETRE DURE PICTURE

AN IMPORTANT AND MONUMENTAL FRAMED FLORENTINE PIETRE DURE PICTURE
ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI MONTELATICI, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Depicting an interior domestic scene of an elderly woman teaching her grand-child to read, five other adults looking on encouragingly, a wine bottle to the upper right corner inscribed Firenze, within a deep fluted, egg-and-dart and laurel-carved giltwood and gesso frame
The picture: 34 x 53½ in. (86.3 x 136 cm.)
Overall: 51¼ x 72 in. (130 x 183 cm.)

A. M. Massinelli, The Gilbert Collection - Hardstones, London, 2000, pp. 14 and 162-3.
C. Payne, François Linke, 1855-1946 - The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003, pp. 254-5.

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.