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A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLES
A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLES

NAPLES, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLES
Naples, late 18th Century
Each later yellow demilune marble top above a panelled frieze carved with flowerheads and foliate trails, on square tapering fluted legs
36in. (93cm.) high, 55in. (141cm) wide, 28in. (71cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

Related Neapolitan consoles of demilune form and with similar delicately carved foliate decoration to the frieze are illustrated in G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Neoclassico Italiano, Milan, 1955, figs. CCXXII-CCXXVI, and in W. Odom, A History of Italian Furniture, New York, 1967, vol. II, p. 270, fig. 327.