A PAIR OF NEAPOLITAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLES

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF NEAPOLITAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLES
Mid-18th Century
Each with a moulded eared and shaped later brown breccia marble top above a shaped frieze with lappeted borders and centred by a foliate scroll, surmounted by a floral spray on a matted ground, the sides conformingly decorated on cabriole legs headed by a ribbed and lappeted foliate scroll and terminating in a further scroll headed by foliage, the top of one table with the remains of a label inscribed 'BARONE THELEN MAISON SUISSE Via Domenico Morelli,... NAP...', and with a depository label dated '18 January 1901', one marble with a restored break to the back right angle
36 in (93 cm.) high; 52 in. (132 cm.) wide; 24 in. (62 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Baron Thelen, Naples.

Lot Essay

A closely related side table with the same lappeted border framing the frieze and centred by a similar foliate motif, in the Museo Correale di Terranuova in Sorrento is illustrated in A. Putaturo Murano, Il Mobile Napoletano del Settecento, Naples, 1977, pl. XLV b. Another related Neapolitan side table in the Raccolta d'Arte Pagliara, Naples is illustrated in Putaturo Murano, op. cit., pl. IX b.

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