A PAIR OF ROYAL PIEDMONTESE GREEN PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE-TABLES

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A Princely Private Residence: Castello Reale di Racconigi. The following lots (213-221), are stamped 'P.P.R.', which has been suggested stands for Principe Piedmonte Racconigi or Proprieta Privata Racconigi. They are also affixed with a 1933 paper inventory label, which together with the 'P.P.R.' stamp, indicates that they were the private property of the Italian Royal Family. With origins in the 12th century, Castello Reale di Racconigi became a Savoia-Carignano property in 1605 and was transformed into a princely residence. Later the private property of the Royal House of Savoy, Racconigi was gifted with its contents by Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, (1869-1947) to his son, Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, following his marriage to Princess Maria-José of Belgium in 1930. Racconigi was acquired by the Italian state in the 1970s, carefully conserved and later opened as a state museum in 1980.

A PAIR OF ROYAL PIEDMONTESE GREEN PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE-TABLES

CIRCA 1820-40

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A PAIR OF ROYAL PIEDMONTESE GREEN PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE-TABLES
CIRCA 1820-40
Each with a moulded serpentine Sicilian jasper and Siena marble top above a foliate carved frieze enclosing a drawer on leaf-capped cabriole legs with hoof feet joined by shaped stretchers, the drawers each with painted and inscribed inventory marks 'P.P.R. 674' and P.P.R. 675', the number '674' cancelled and later inscribed '878A', each with Castello Reale di Racconigi inventory labels dated 1933, and inscribed 'M.B. 736'
32 in. (81 cm.) high; 24½ in. (61 cm.) wide; 18¼ in. (46 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Castello Reale di Racconigi, Turin.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

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