AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD CENTER TABLE

PROBABLY FLORENCE, CIRCA 1810-20

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AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD CENTER TABLE
PROBABLY FLORENCE, CIRCA 1810-20
With a probably original bianco e nero marble top, on bead and reel carved frieze above winged lion carved legs joined by leaf-carved X-form stretcher centered by a patera, on lion's paw feet and pads
31¾ in. (80.5 cm.) high, 71¾ in. (182 cm.) wide, 36 in. (92 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The distinctive use of X-form stretchers to join the legs for greater stability is seen on two pairs of tables supplied by the Florentine furniture-maker and carver Lorenzo Dolci to the Palazzo Pitti circa 1788 (see E. Colle, I Mobili di Palazzo Pitti Il Primo Periodo Lorenese, Florence, 1992, pp. 121-3, cats. 50 and 51). The use of lion monopodia by Florentine carvers is seen on a giltwood console supplied in 1833 to the Palazzo Pitti (see E. Colle, I Mobili di Palazzo Pitti Il Secondo Periodo Lorenese, Florence, 2000, p. 202, cat. 117).

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