PIEDMONT, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
PIEDMONT, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular shaped alabastro fiorito veneered top above a pierced scrolling frieze centered by a stylised foliate lambrequin, the sides with conforming foliate scrolls, on shaped tapering baluster legs carved with C-scrolls and foliage, joined by a shaped stretched centered by a female mask with shell-shaped head-dress, on shaped feet, the gilding refreshed, the underside of the marble top inscribed 'B.C.'
38½ in. (98 cm.) high; 56¼ in. (143 cm.) wide; 28½ in. (72.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This particular type of inverted obelisk shaped legs found on this console table was executed by Court carvers and sculptors in Piedmont during the first decades of the 18th century. These tables were manufactured mainly as part of the palatial furnishings of the Savoy residences in and around Turin. Related models, as the one here under illustrated is in Palazzo Reale, Camera dell'Alcova, illustrated in R. Antonetto, Minusieri ed Ebanisti del Piemonte, Torino, 1985, p. 195, ill 270; while another example also in Palazzo Reale, in the Sala dei Paggi shares a similar decorative scheme, with a particularly similar carved mask to the centre of the stretcher (see V. Viale, Mostra del Barocco Piemontese, exhibition catalogue, 1963, pl. 53).

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