AN IRISH GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE

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AN IRISH GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
Second half 19th Century

The mushroom coloured marble top of serpentine shape, above a frieze centred by a mask, flanked to each side by scrolling foliage and stylised dragons, on scrolled legs headed by cherub masks above foliate swags, joined by scrolled 'X'-stretcher, the centre with a pair of cherubs,
the marble later, the gilding later decorated
58½in. (149cm.) wide; 34in. (86cm.) high; 27¾in. (70.5cm.) deep

Provenance

By Repute The Earls of Leinster, Carton House, Dublin

Lot Essay

The table, designed in the mid-18th Century Italian manner is centred by an Apollo-masked cartouche flanked by eagles, while the serpentined legs are surmounted by nymph masks with cupids perced on the stretchers

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