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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE (LOTS 208-211)
It is incredibly rare to find a set of four such fabulous console tables as the ones offered here. Preserved with most of their original gilt-varnished silvered decoration these consoles are typical of Neapolitan craftsmanship of the mid-18th century and relate closely to an example now at the Museo Correale di Terranova in Sorrento (A.P. Murano, Il mobile Napoletano del settecento, Naples 1977, pl. XLV) as well as one at the Palazzo Reale in Caserta (Civiltà del '700 a Napoli 1734-1799, Secondo volume, Naples December 1979, p. 195, fig. 435). The portrait of King Ferdinand IV at the age of nine by Anton Raphael Mengs shows the young sovereign standing next to a table of very similar style and proportions (The Golden Age of Naples, Art and Civilization under the Bourbons, 1734-1805, ex. Cat. The Detroit Institute of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago, 1981, vol. I, p. 174, fig 63).
A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN GILT-VARNISHED-SILVERED ('MECCA') AND MARBLEISED CONSOLE TABLES
MID-18TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN GILT-VARNISHED-SILVERED ('MECCA') AND MARBLEISED CONSOLE TABLES
MID-18TH CENTURY
Each with a green simulated marble top, above a shaped frieze centred by a shell and floral sprays, on a ground of flowerheads, the sides conformingly-decorated, on scroll-carved shell-headed cabriole legs terminating in foliate-swept feet, losses and restorations to decoration
39¼ in. (99.5 cm.) high; 62 in. (157.5 cm.) wide; 30¾ in. (78 cm.) deep (2)
MID-18TH CENTURY
Each with a green simulated marble top, above a shaped frieze centred by a shell and floral sprays, on a ground of flowerheads, the sides conformingly-decorated, on scroll-carved shell-headed cabriole legs terminating in foliate-swept feet, losses and restorations to decoration
39¼ in. (99.5 cm.) high; 62 in. (157.5 cm.) wide; 30¾ in. (78 cm.) deep (2)
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Giles Forster
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