AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GILTWOOD CENTER TABLE

CIRCA 1780

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AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GILTWOOD CENTER TABLE
Circa 1780
The rectangular veined red marble top above a pierced acanthus-carved frieze within a husk-carved surround, on turned tapering stop-fluted legs headed by panelled anthemia and carved with leaf-tip collars
32in. (83cm.) high, 49in. (125cm.) wide, 37in. (94cm.) deep

Sale room notice

Please note that the marble top to this lot was re-broken at the site of an old repair. It will be restored at Christie's expense.

Lot Essay

A related Roman side table, with similar frieze of pierced acanthus, reputedly from the Palazzo Braschi, is illustrated in A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto: Roma e il Regno delle Due Sicilie, Milan, 1984, vol. II, p. 102, fig. 207. The table offered here has the rare feature of being decorated on all four sides, therefore being designed to be placed in the center of a room. Fixing holes on the inside of the frieze indicate that it may have originally been backed with fabric.

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