A NORTH ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE

FLORENCE, CIRCA 1780

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A NORTH ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE
Florence, Circa 1780
The veined white marble-inset rectangular top with molded edge above a leaf-tip course, the frieze with alternating acanthus and pendant seed pods on a stippled ground centered by a rectangular panel with lobed lower edge decorated with a floral spray issuing acanthus scrolls, and above a fluted course, each corner set with a flowering urn, on square tapering fluted legs with turned leaf-sheathed bases and reeded toupie feet with molded divisions
35½in. (90cm.) high, 40in. (101.5cm.) wide, 21¼in. (51.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

With its inset marble top, refined Neo-Classical ornament and part-fluted legs with turned acanthus-sheathed and toupie feet, this console is characteristically Florentine. An extremely closely related example in a Private Collection in Milan is illustrated in G. Morrazzoni, Il Mobile Neoclassico Italiano, Milan, 1955, Tav. CXCI.

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