MID-18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ROMAN

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AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
MID-18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ROMAN
The serpentine-fronted Giallo di Siena marble top with verde antico marble border, above a pierced frieze with a central cartouche flanked by scrolls and foliate sprays, on cabriole legs headed with flowerheads, joined by shaped stretchers centred with a pierced shell, and terminating in scrolled feet, minor losses to back edges of marble top
35¼ in. (89.5 cm.) high; 62¾ in. (159.5 cm.) wide; 32 in. (81.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A closely related Roman console with very similar carved frieze, stretcher and legs from a private Bolognese collection is illustrated in S. Colombo, L'Arte del Legno e del Mobile in Italia, Turin, 1981, pl. 420. Further comparables include a console in the Count Paolo Diamilla Magnelli collection (G. Lizzani, Il Mobile Romano, Milan, 1970, fig. 128), and an example, recorded in an 1872 inventory of the Quirinale, Rome, illustrated in A. González-Palacios, I Mobili Italiani, Rome, 1996, fig. 54. Christie's, New York, sold a pair of Roman giltwood consoles, 28 March 2007, lot 292 ($78,000 including premium).

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