Lot 17
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A pair of Italian sculpted white marble table supports
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A pair of Italian sculpted white marble table supports

CIRCA 1800

Details
A pair of Italian sculpted white marble table supports
Circa 1800
In the Antique manner, carved with lion paw monopodiae and anthemion motifs
30½ in. (77.5 cm.) high, 32¼ in. (82 cm.) wide, 7 in. (18 cm.) deep (2)
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Lot Essay

The palm-flowered trestles with voluted trusses terminating in bacchic lion-paws are inspired by marble antiquities such as the table and seat trestles illustrated in C.H.Tatham Etchings Representing the Best Examples of Ancient Ornamental Architecture Drawn from the Originals in Rome and other Parts of Italy, during the years 1794, 1795 and 1796, London, 1799 (4th ed. 1826). Related marble seat-trestles are in the Vatican and Louvre (G.M.A.Richter The Furntiure of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, 1966, figs 503 and 504).

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