A PORTUGUESE ROCOCO SOLID ROSEWOOD SIDE TABLE

LATE 18TH/FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A PORTUGUESE ROCOCO SOLID ROSEWOOD SIDE TABLE
Late 18th/first half 19th century
The moulded serpentine top above a curved frieze with two panelled and oak-lined drawers, the shaped apron and sides decorated with rocaille C-scrolls and floral foliage, on elongated cabriole legs and scrolling feet, remounted
31½in. (80cm.) high, 44in. (112cm.) wide, 25½in. (65cm.) deep

拍品專文

This table with its almost lifelike charachter, rocaille carving, elongated cabriole legs and pronounced curved feet is typical of Portuguese salon furniture in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. A closely related table is illustrated in J. A. Levinson, ed. The Age of the Baroque in Portugal, 1993, p. 198, as well as a pair of tables illustrated in M.J. Espirito Santo Bustorff Silva and M.N. Teague, Ricardo do Espirito Santo Silva Foundation, Lison 1995, p. 76.

A 19th Century table of this style was recently sold anonymously at Christie's London, 15 November 2001, lot 100 (£ 9400).