The room, together with the drawings room, belongs to a body renovated in 1774 inside the sixteenth-century building which looks out on via S. Egidio.
Its last destination within the sphere of the Miniscalchi-Erizzo's residence was as a card-room and this usage probably suggested to paint the walls and the dome vaults with a green tempera. During the restoration works in 1981, was brought back to light an original melted wax paint in Pompeian red, recovered and renovated according to the ancient technique.



Partial view of the room.

 

The furniture is made up of a group Venetian pieces of furniture lacquered and painted, them all nearly coeval and representative of the three styles called Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI.
Particularly noteworthy is a rare pattern of dresser, aquamarine-green lacquered and painted with vegetable motifs and two allegorical figures - Music and Geometry - and with imitation marble plane.



Dresser lacquered and painted (Venetia, first half of the XVIIIc).

 

The built-in glass cupboard houses a collection of precious ancient Murano glassware: for their rarity and age three pots stand out with lid in mould blown glass with gilded decorations in relief (XVIc).



Pyx-shaped pot in blown glass
(Venice, half of the XVIc).

 

In the middle of the room we finally find a pretty sedan-chair decorated with love scenes of exquisite Arcadian taste (half of the XVIIIc).



Sedan-chair painted with courtship scenes
(Venetian, half of the XVIIIc).

 

 








 

 

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