AN ITALIAN ROCOCO GREEN-PAINTED, POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE AND ASSOCIATED MIRROR

MID-18TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN ROCOCO GREEN-PAINTED, POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE AND ASSOCIATED MIRROR
Mid-18th Century
The associated mirror with a later rectangular plate and shaped arched cresting carved with c-scrolls and foliage centering a pierced cartouche flanked to each side by rectangular panelled mirrored slips surmounted by scrolls, the console with shaped faux marble top above a scrolled foliate-carved frieze centering a shell, on slightly cabriole legs carved with ruffled cabochons, with hoof feet, decorated overall with floral sprays, underside of table top inscribed Sig. Schiera Alfonso Castellamare Adriatico
The console 39in. (99cm.) high, 63in. (160.5cm.) wide, 28in. (71cm.) diameter; the mirror 46in. (117cm.) high, 64in. (164cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

Related Piedmontese overmantel mirrors in the Museo d'Arti Applicate, Milan with triple-divided plates and scroll-carved pedimented crestings are illustrated in E. Colle,Museo d'Arti Applicate, Mobili e Intagli Lignei, Milan, 1996, p.396, figs. 704-5, and other similar Torinese mirrors are illustrated in A. Pedrini, Il Mobilio gli Ambienti e le Decorazioni nei Secoli XVII e XVIII in Piemonte, p. 79, figs. 114-5.