PAIR OF "ARTE POVERA" HALF-HEIGHT CORNER CABINETS WITH WALL-MOUNTED UPPER PARTS Rococo, Venice, 18th century. Wood, painted with flowers on a red and beige ground, and decorated with glued-on colored engravings in the "Arte Povera" style. Upper and lower parts, each with a curved door. The doors, each with a reserve, depicting figural scenes with a red/green border. 55 x 36 x 170 cm. One upper part and one lower part restored. The second cabinet has the upper and lower parts joined, the doors are highly warped and require restoration and cleaning. The "Arte Povera" technique was developed in Venice, in the style of Chinese lacquer work. It involved cutting out motifs from engravings, coloring them and applying them to a lacquer-like painted structure in the form of pictorial motifs. See furniture with comparable decorations: Saul Levy: Laques venitiennes du dix-huitieme siecle, Paris 1968, Vol. 2, Ills. 140-148.