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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN GILT-WALNUT CONSOLES
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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN GILT-WALNUT CONSOLES

SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY PIEDMONT

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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN GILT-WALNUT CONSOLES
Second quarter 18th Century, possibly Piedmont
Each with later brocatella di spagna marble top of broken D-shaped outline, above pierced rocaille and scroll frieze, on scrolling cabriole legs carved with floral trails joined by scroll stretchers with central shell, regilt, minor replacements and losses to carving, interior of frieze with printed label from 20th Century auction catalogue
34¾ in. (88 cm.) high; 49½ in. (126 cm.) wide; 24½ in. (62.5 cm.) deep (2)
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Lot Essay

The richly carved frames of these impressive consoles, with deeply voluted scrolls combined with large-scale rocailles, relates them to other Piedmontese consoles produced in the 1730's and 1740's. A series of consoles in the Palazzo Reale, Turin, with similar deeply incurving supports combined with shells, are illustrated in V. Viale ed., Mostra del Barocco Piemontese, Turin, 1963, figs. 62 and 65-7.

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