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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE

LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, PIEDMONT

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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, PIEDMONT
The rectangular moulded gris Sainte-Anne marble top with canted angles above a pierced frieze carved with Vitruvian scrolls, and decorated with ribbon-tied flowerhead garlands, the acanthus-wrapped turned tapering and fluted legs headed by Corinthian capitals and joined by a shaped stretcher decorated with entrelacs and mille-raies, centred by an acanthus-wrapped urn with flowers, on foliate feet, with a blue-bordered paper label numbered 'N. 613'
33½ in. (85 cm.) high; 54½ in. (139 cm.) wide; 27½ in. (70 cm.) deep
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The finely detailed and jewel-like carving of this elegant console, probably designed in the 1780s, is characteristic for the circle of carvers and cabinet-makers in Turin patronized by the royal family. The most celebrated of these was Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo (1745-1820), who worked for the Court from 1773, however, other skilled craftsmen and intagliatori such as Francesco Tanadei, Giuseppe Marchino, Francesco Novaro and Francesco Bolgiè, working around Bonzanigo, were also commissioned to provide work for Stupinigi, Moncalieri, Venaria, Rivoli and most of all for the Palazzo Reale in the centre of Turin. The design also relates to the work of the Rome-trained architect Jean Demosthene Dugourc (d.1825), who was patronised by the Duc d'Orleans from 1780 and was the author of a suite of 'Arabesques' or Roman ornament issued in 1782. A pioneer of the Etruscan or Pompeain style Dugourc was appointed 'Dessinateur' of Louis XVI's Garde-Meuble de la Couronne and executed designs for Fontainebleau.

A pair of related console tables with similar carving, formerly in the collection of the Earls of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, was sold Sotheby's house sale, 18 May 1977, lot 836.