Stipo a bambocci

The characteristic features of the stipo a bambocci are the carved small, chubby child-figures.

On some surviving examples the bambocci-figures correspond with each other and are composed in a certain iconographical context, such as the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden on one cabinet in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.

On the basis of new research it was possible to identify a workshop, which developed and produced the stipo a bambocci as a new type of writing-cabinets.

After having gained the interest of the nobility the demand for stipi a bambocci started to grow and the production of individual cabinets (in the sense of the iconography) began.

They are in distinguished private collections and museums, e.g. in Milan in the Museo Poldi-Pezzoli, Bagatti-Valsecchi and in the Castello Sforzesco.