A ROMAN BROWN-PAINTED EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE with later portor marble rectangular top above a later egg-and-dart moulded frieze supported by a bearded blackamoor, draped with a gilded sash leaning against a rocky clump issuing coins and flanked by fern leaves on a rocky shaped base and moulded plinth, the underframe of the top extended and now with egg-and-dart moulding, the moulded plinth later, early 18th Century, with label to the underside Ascot and with further label Piece No. 079 lot no. A38 Piece No., redecorated with traces of old paint and gilding

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A ROMAN BROWN-PAINTED EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE with later portor marble rectangular top above a later egg-and-dart moulded frieze supported by a bearded blackamoor, draped with a gilded sash leaning against a rocky clump issuing coins and flanked by fern leaves on a rocky shaped base and moulded plinth, the underframe of the top extended and now with egg-and-dart moulding, the moulded plinth later, early 18th Century, with label to the underside Ascot and with further label Piece No. 079 lot no. A38 Piece No., redecorated with traces of old paint and gilding
70½in. (179cm.) wide; 40in. (101.5cm.) high; 32in. (81.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A closely related console table in the Palazzo Colonna, Rome, with twin crouching blackamoors resting upon a naturalistic rocky base is illustrated in G. Lizzani, Il Mobile Romano, Milan 1970, pl.112. It is interesting to note that the offered lot also shares the waved, moulded plinth with the Palazzo Colonna Console table

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