A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE
A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE

EARLY 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY PIEDMONTESE

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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE
Early 18th Century, possibly Piedmontese
Lacking marble top, with moulded frieze, hung with pierced scrolling foliage and drapery, centred by a putto's mask on S-scroll leaf-wrapped legs, the ends joined by shaped stretcher centred by flowering urn to each side, joined by scrolling foliage centred by a putto's mask surmounted by a rocaille cresting, on later bun feet, regilt
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 58 in. (147 cm.) wide; 30½ in. (77.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The frieze on this table of a female mask framed by boldly scrolling foliage relates it to a group of tables of slightly earlier date in the Palazzo Reale, Turin, illustrated in V. Viale et al., Mostra del Barocco Piemontese, exh. cat., Turin, 1963, vol. III, figs, 52-3.

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