Lot 380
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A PAIR OF ITALIAN ROCOCO SILVERED CONSOLE TABLES
A PAIR OF ITALIAN ROCOCO SILVERED CONSOLE TABLES

MID-18TH CENTURY, NAPLES

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN ROCOCO SILVERED CONSOLE TABLES
Mid-18th Century, Naples
Each with green serpentine faux marble top above a diaper-incised apron centering a shell issuing trailing foliage, the sides centering further shells, on rocaille and flower-carved cabriole legs, on scroll feet, one foot tipped
36in. (91.5cm.) high, 52in. (133cm.) wide, 22in. (56cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

A closely related console, with similar flattened scroll feet and diaper-incised apron, in the Palazzo Reale, Caserta, is illustrated in Civit del '700 a Napoli, Naples, 1979, cat. vol.II, p. 195, cat. 435. A similar table appears in a portrait of Ferdinand IV, (who ascended to the Bourbon throne of Naples in 1759), ibid., vol. I, p.310, cat.168.