AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE TABLE
AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE TABLE

CIRCA 1770, PROBABLY VENICE

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AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE TABLE
Circa 1770, probably Venice
The shaped rectangular top inset with a later faux-marble top above an egg-and-dart edge over a frieze centering a ribbon-tied carved panel with putti, the incurving sides with similar panels, on square fluted tapering legs and square feet, redecorated, top with later attached silver plated candlesticks and central bowl
34in. (86.5cm.) high, 60in. (152.5cm. ) wide, 27in. (68.5cm) deep

Lot Essay

A related Venetian polychrome-decorated console table in the collection of Tullio Silva, Milan, is illustrated in S. Levy, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento, Milan, 1964, vol. II, fig. XLII.