A PAIR OF ITALIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED SIDE TABLES

19TH 20TH CENTURY

细节

A PAIR OF ITALIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED SIDE TABLES
19TH 20TH CENTURY
Each with a grey-veined white marble top above a frieze decorated with Greek key fretwork and Chinoiserie figures and pavillions centered by a male Chinoiserie mask, on square tapering legs headed by pagoda-form collars with hanging bells to the corners, on toupie feet
34½ in. (87.5 cm.) high, 51½ in. (131 cm.) wide, 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep (2)

拍品专文

The design of these 'Chinese'-decorated tables is inspired by a pair of mirrors embellished with pagodas, Greek-key bands and pendant bells, while the central panels decorated with similar figures and landscapes, from the collection of Frederick P. Victoria and son, sold Christie's, New York, 27 May 1999, lot 106. These exotic designs were championed in Italy in particular by Ferdinando IV, King of the two Sicilies, after his arrival in Palermo in 1798 when he commissioned his Palazzina Cinese, and the Duke of Aosta, who decorated his Castello di Rivoli near Turin in a very similar scheme in 1795.