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Lot Essay
The distinctively carved legs, with their acanthus capitals and slender leaf-carved feet, in combination with a frieze of scrolling acanthus, relates these tables to a side table in the Palazzo Borghese, Rome (illustrated in W. Odom, A History of Italian Furniture: from the 14th to the early 19th Century, vol. II, New York, 1967, p. 286, no. 345.
The tables offered here have the additional à l'antique features of the oval tablet medallion flanked by female caryatids, and the striking Medusa masks to the sides.
A further related Roman table, with similarly carved legs and oval relief tablet to the frieze, is in the Villa Borghese, Rome (illustrated in A. González-Palacios, Il Gusto dei Principi, Milan, 1993, vol. II, p. 237, fig. 473).
The tables offered here have the additional à l'antique features of the oval tablet medallion flanked by female caryatids, and the striking Medusa masks to the sides.
A further related Roman table, with similarly carved legs and oval relief tablet to the frieze, is in the Villa Borghese, Rome (illustrated in A. González-Palacios, Il Gusto dei Principi, Milan, 1993, vol. II, p. 237, fig. 473).