19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY VENICE

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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED MIRROR AND CONSOLE
19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY VENICE
The cartouche-shaped mirror centered by a shaped plate within a pierced rocaille-carved frame with foliate sprays and floral garlands surmounted by a mirrored cartouche cresting with upswept foliate sprays; the console with a serpentine-fronted and moulded breccia marble top, above a foliate rocaille-carved frieze centered by a mask with floral headdress, flanked by rockwork and scrolls, above double-scrolled cabriole legs joined by an X-shaped stretcher with a floral basket finial, with a grey and red metal inventory label, the decoration retouched
the mirror: 98 in. (249 cm.) high; 62 in. (157.5 cm.) wide; the console: 34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 61 in. (155 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

The impressive carving and proportions of this console table and en suite mirror with its delicately carved flowers is reminiscent of the north Italian 18th century production, and particularly the Venetian one. The 19th century revival of such sculptural pieces was so popular that different regions in Italy were producing such pieces. A related Florentine suite (see detail next page), brought to Parma by the Bourbons and now at Palazzo Pitti, was exuberantly produced in the neo-rococo style and is illustrated in G. Cirillo, G. Godi, Il Mobile a Parma fra Barocco e Romanticismo 1600-1860, Parma, 1983, p. 235, ills. 665, 666.

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