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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU AND GILT-GESSO MOUNTED POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT PLASTER LOW TABLE

THE PAINTED PLASTER POSSIBLY LATE 18TH CENTURY AND ADAPTED FROM A SURTOUT DE TABLE

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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU AND GILT-GESSO MOUNTED POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT PLASTER LOW TABLE
THE PAINTED PLASTER POSSIBLY LATE 18TH CENTURY AND ADAPTED FROM A SURTOUT DE TABLE
En suite with the previous lot, the losenge form top painted with grottesques having a central cartouche containing a Neoclassical medallion issuing fantastic beasts, putti, and foliate scrolls within a boder of swag drapery, birds and portrait medallions, the glass top with a gilt gesso guilloché border and raised on square tapering legs
20 in. (51 cm.) high, 56½ in. (143.5 cm.) wide, 24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A surtout de table manufactured by Giovanni Volpato, late 18th century, with closely related grottesque decoration at the Palazzo Pallavicini is illustrated in A. González-Palacios, Fasto Romano, Dipinti, Sculture, Arredi dai Palazzi di Roma, Rome, 1991, pl.70.

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