Lot 9
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A NORTH ITALIAN KINGWOOD AND ROSEWOOD GAMES TABLE
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A NORTH ITALIAN KINGWOOD AND ROSEWOOD GAMES TABLE

GENOA, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A NORTH ITALIAN KINGWOOD AND ROSEWOOD GAMES TABLE
Genoa, mid-18th Century
The tulipwood-banded eared and hinged triangular top lined to the interior with burgundy fabric, the shaped frieze fitted with two small drawers, on cabriole legs with later foliate scroll sabots, the frieze drawers possibly later additions, one drawer inscribed in pencil 'N6O intz'
31¼ in. (79.5 cm.) high (closed), 42½ in. (108 cm.) wide, 21¼ in. (54 cm.) deep.
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Lot Essay

Related Italian Genoese games tables of the same distinctive triangular form, which is clearly derived from Parisian prototypes of the 1730's and 1740's by ébénistes such as Pierre Migeon, are illustrated in A. González-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genoa, 1996, p. 273, fig. 320, and L. Canonero, Barocchetto Genovese, Milan, 1962, fig. LXXXI.

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