A NORTH ITALIAN WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE

LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A NORTH ITALIAN WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE
LATE 18TH CENTURY
With an inset bardiglio marble top over a guilloche and leaf-tip- carved edge above two scrolled foliate-carved brackets, pierced and carved with berried acanthus, with a similarly carved and shaped backplate, on tapering foliate feet, later oak strip beneath marble
32 in. (81 cm.) high, 30 in. (76 cm.) wide, 13¾ in. (35 cm.) deep

Provenance

with Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York.

Lot Essay

The fine scale, delicately-carved foliate panel of the backboard on this console relates it to the circle of the celebrated Turinese cabinet-maker Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo, appointed sculptor to the Royal court of Turin in 1787 by Vittorio Amedeo III. Skilled craftsmen and intagliatori such as Francesco Tanadei, Giuseppe Marchino, Francesco Novaro and Francesco Bolgiè were working around Bonzanigo on the numerous royal commissions for the residences of Stupinigi, Moncalieri, Venaria, Rivoli and most of all the Royal Palace in Turin. The double inverted foliate scroll issuing trailing foliage found at the center of this console is related to a similar motif on a door by Francesco Bogliè for the Duchessa d'Aosta's apartment in the Palazzo Reale di Torino, illustrated in G. Ferraris, Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo, Turin, 1991, p.23, pl. 24

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