TUSCANY, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A CENTRAL ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
TUSCANY, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The serpentine-fronted white-veined green cipollino marble top with rounded angles above a pierced foliate scrolling frieze centered by a medallion with a profile of a female looking left, flanked by foliate masks, above S-shaped legs headed by further dragon masks and joined by an X-shaped stretcher centered by a large foliate spray and terminating in scrolling feet, the marble and central portrait medallion probably later
35¼ in. (89.5 cm.) high; 65¾ in. (167 cm.) wide; 30¾ in. (78 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A closely related florentine console table executed during the second quarter of the 18th century, now conserved in the Appartamento degli Arazzi, prima sala, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, is believed to be part of a suite of six console tables carved 'con festoni, fogliami, medaglioni e maschere' executed by florentine carvers and retailed to the Court by the tappezziere Gaetano Seti circa 1750. Similar foliate exotic masks to the legs as well as conforming pierced scrolled frieze are to be related to the console table offered here. See E. Colle, I Mobili di Palazzo Pitti, Il primo periodo lorenese 1737-1799, Florence, 1992, fig. 33, p. 103.

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