AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE

LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY LUCCA OR FLORENCE

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AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
Late 18th early 19th Century, possibly Lucca or Florence
The later waved and eared green, orange and red marble top above a pierced frieze centred by a scallop-shell issuing fruiting vines, on two scrolling channelled-supports terminating in dolphin's heads and supported by youths issuing from fish-tails, joined by a bowed, stop-fluted stretcher centred by a flowerhead and surmounted by a fruiting vase, the top section of the frame beneath the marble later, losses to the carving
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 55½ in. (141 cm.) wide; 23 in. (59 cm.) deep

拍品專文

This console table relates to the general decoration scheme that Maria Luisa di Borbone embarked on when she decided to modernise the Palazzo Ducale in Lucca between 1818 and 1820. This undertaking was so gigantic that the state decided to separate the contributions they made to the family and the building works, which from then on had to be paid by the Borbone's, in 1820. A giltwood chair incorporating a putto of similar type to the figures at the base of this console table was supplied to the Palazzo during these years and is today in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence (S. Chiarugi, Botteghe di Mobilieri in Toscana, Florence, 1994, p. 154, fig. 176).