Masterpiece recovered by Piffetti – Arte

(ANSA) – TURIN, JULY 24 – A masterpiece of Pietro cabinet maker
Piffetti, worth more than 2 million euros, was
recovered by the Carabinieri from the Heritage Protection Command
cultural. This is a double-body office with
precious inlays of ivory and mother-of-pearl, missing from Italy
in the Second World War. The office had been transported before
in France, then in Switzerland and finally in the United States, where,
in the late 90s she had been exposed to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York, one of the largest and most important
world.
"The exceptional recovery is the result of intense activity
Men's and Women's Investigation of the Protection Command
Cultural heritage that has done a demanding job and
delicate, with the collaboration and support of the
Mibac, to give back to the community a masterpiece of art
Italy illegally removed from state property ",
comments the Minister of Cultural Heritage, Alberto Bonisoli.
Restored, the work will be on display to the public (ANSA).