Lot 379
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PAIR OF ITALIAN ROCOCO SILVERED SIDE TABLES
PAIR OF ITALIAN ROCOCO SILVERED SIDE TABLES

MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY SICILY

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PAIR OF ITALIAN ROCOCO SILVERED SIDE TABLES
Mid-18th Century, possibly Sicily
Each with later inset veined grey and red marble top above a pierced apron carved with scrolls and trailing flowers centering a feathered scroll cartouche, the sides carved with pierced scrolls, on foliate-headed cabriole legs joined by a scrolled X-form stretcher supporting a basket of fruit, on claw-and-ball feet
35in. (90cm.) high, 52in. (132cm.) wide, 26in. (67cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

A console table with similar boldly carved scrolling foliage, X-form stretchers and lion's paw feet, in a private collection in Palermo, is illustrated in M. Giarizzo and A. Rotolo, Mobili e Mobilieri Nella Sicilia del Settecento, Palermo, 1992, p. 70, fig. 8.