AN ITALIAN NEO-CLASSICAL GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE TABLE, the specimen marble top with central oval giallo panel within black, Siena and red brecchia borders, the moulded and beaded frieze centred by an oval portrait-medallion of an Emperor, flanked by opposing sea-horses and foliate trails with ram's heads to the angles, the sides similarly carved with portrait silhouettes of Roman Emperors, on stiff-leaf-headed turned tapering fluted and beaded legs with ball feet, restorations, the backboard possibly replaced, redecorated, the top probably associated, late 18th Century

Sold by the Executors of the late SIR PHILIP SHELBOURNE

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AN ITALIAN NEO-CLASSICAL GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE TABLE, the specimen marble top with central oval giallo panel within black, Siena and red brecchia borders, the moulded and beaded frieze centred by an oval portrait-medallion of an Emperor, flanked by opposing sea-horses and foliate trails with ram's heads to the angles, the sides similarly carved with portrait silhouettes of Roman Emperors, on stiff-leaf-headed turned tapering fluted and beaded legs with ball feet, restorations, the backboard possibly replaced, redecorated, the top probably associated, late 18th Century
61in. (155cm.) wide, 37in. (94cm.) high, 30½in. (77.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This side table reflects the Neo-classical style as popularised by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (d.1778). Related ram's-heads to the corners with a foliate frieze centred by a portrait medallion appear on a design for a tavolo da muro by Piranesi circa 1765 and illustrated in A. Gouzales-Palacios 'Il Tempio del Gusto, Romas E Il Regno della Due Sicile', vol II, Milan 1984, fig 153

A Venetian side table with related foliate arabesque frieze centred by a portrait medallion between mythological beasts is illustrated in G. Morazzoni, 'Il Mobile Neoclassico Italiano', Milan 1955, pl.CCCXLIII

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