TUSCANY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A CENTRAL ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
TUSCANY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular fior di pesco inset marble top with stiff-leaf moulding above a panelled frieze with flowerhead-filled entrelac motif within a pearled border, centered by a flaming urn, the angles with ribbon suspended musical trophies and on square tapering panelled legs with conforming flowerhead-filled entrelac and surrounded by a swagged channelled urn element, marble top later
35 in. (89 cm.) high; 70½ in. (179 cm.) wide; 29½ in. (75 cm.) deep

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A closely related Florentine console table dated circa 1785-1790 is conserved in Galleria Palatina, Sala di Venere in Palazzo Pitti, Florence. See E. Colle, I Mobili di Palazzo Pitti, Il primo periodo lorenese 1737-1799, Florence, 1992, n. 55, p. 128. Interestingly, the friezes of both console tables are delicately carved with various types of flowerheads alternating, and both are centered by an urn motif. Other production centers in Italy such as Rome were manufacturing similarly carved consoles.

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