A PAIR OF VENETIAN POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLES

MID-18TH CENTURY, THE DECORATION PROBABLY LARGELY ORIGINAL

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A PAIR OF VENETIAN POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLES
MID-18TH CENTURY, THE DECORATION PROBABLY LARGELY ORIGINAL
Each with later marmo giallo marble inset top above a scalloped serpentine frieze painted with blue floral spray cartouches and carved with a gilt musical trophy on acanthus-carved cabriole legs ending in scrolled toes
31 in. (79 cm.) high, 56 in. (142 cm.) wide, 29 in. (74 cm.) deep (2)

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The delicate floral sprays contrasted with the boldly sculptural body of the above consoles are typical components of mid 18th century Venetian painted furniture. They were the perfect compliment for the elaborately stuccoed and painted rooms of the local palazzi and countryside villas. The vogue for whimsical painted rooms began in France with the naturalistic forms prevalent in the Rococo and soon spread across Europe where painted rooms and furniture seized the imagination of Italian craftsmen. The above lot shares characteristics with consoles illustrated in Mobili Venesiani Laccati, plate 67 as well as fig. 201 in William Odom's A History of Italian Furniture, volume II, New York, 1967. Paint analysis reveals that the decoration is most probably original as the Prussian blue and orpiment used to color the consoles was rarely used after 1818 when chrome yellow was introduced.