A PAIR OF ROMAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ROMAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES
Mid-18th Century
Each with waved and moulded later jasper marble top above a pierced apron with C-scrolls and floral and foliate swags centred by a scallop-shell, on scrolling legs headed by a floral trail and joined by a waved X-shaped stretcher with foliate scrolls and centred by a pierced foliate spray, on foliate scrolling feet
37½ in. (95 cm.) high; 74 in. (188 cm.) wide; 34¾ in. (88 cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

A console table of similar design and with the same light and restrained construction and pieds en escargot is in the Quirinale, Rome, and illustrated in A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Patrimonio artistico del Quirinale, I Mobili Italiani, Milan, 1996, p. 176, cat. 52.

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