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AN ITALIAN SCAGLIOLA TABLE TOP, early 18th Century
The rectangular top with central floral arabesque medallion enclosing a vignette of Poseidon pursuing a maiden, the outer border with Bacchanalian scenes, grotesque beasts, fauns and further mythological figures, flanked by espagnolette mask-headed angle cartouches depicting courtly figures in landscapes, on an Italian stained wood base, the gadrooned collar above a pierced frieze carved with imbricated C-scrolls and acanthus-trails and centred by a mask, on acanthus-wrapped baluster legs with guilloche recessed panels above a hatched foot joined by a channelled acanthus-carved X-shaped stretcher, centred by a fruiting spray
55in. (141cm.) wide; 37¼in. (94.5cm.) high; 28in. (71cm.) deep
The rectangular top with central floral arabesque medallion enclosing a vignette of Poseidon pursuing a maiden, the outer border with Bacchanalian scenes, grotesque beasts, fauns and further mythological figures, flanked by espagnolette mask-headed angle cartouches depicting courtly figures in landscapes, on an Italian stained wood base, the gadrooned collar above a pierced frieze carved with imbricated C-scrolls and acanthus-trails and centred by a mask, on acanthus-wrapped baluster legs with guilloche recessed panels above a hatched foot joined by a channelled acanthus-carved X-shaped stretcher, centred by a fruiting spray
55in. (141cm.) wide; 37¼in. (94.5cm.) high; 28in. (71cm.) deep
Provenance
By family tradition this table top is mentioned in the first inventory drawn up of the Palais Kinsky in Vienna in the 18th Century