Lot 196
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A PAIR OF ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES WITH SCAGLIOLA TOPS
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A PAIR OF ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES WITH SCAGLIOLA TOPS

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES WITH SCAGLIOLA TOPS
Mid-18th Century
Each with eared serpentine-fronted scagliola top decorated with chinoiserie figures and butterflies playing in and around a pond on one and a dog with butterflies and a chinaman on the other on a black ground, above a waved apron decorated with foliage and scrolls and centred by a cabochon, on scrolling legs headed by a shell and joined by an X-shaped stretcher headed by a pierced rockwork shell, on scrolling feet, loss to one top, regilt, losses to gilding
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 46 in. (117 cm.) wide; 21½ in. (55 cm.) deep (2)
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

These superb console tables, vigorously carved with cabochons, rocaille and C-scrolls, exemplify the distinctive Piedmontese interpretation of the rococo style, strongly influenced by French forms. Similar consoles with deep-carved shell stretchers adorn the Gabinetto cinese in the Palazzo Reale, Turin (illustrated in V. Viale, Mostra del Barocco Piemontese, Turin, 1963, fig. 58). It is tepmting to think that these consoles, with their charming chinoiserie scagliola tops, were destined for just such a room.

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