PROBABLY ROME, CIRCA 1775

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AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE
PROBABLY ROME, CIRCA 1775
With an associated rouge languedoc veneered marble top above a berrying laurel frieze centered by a mask of Hermes over fruiting floral garlands, fluted tapering legs, ink label 1102 to frame
38 ¼ in. (97.5 cm.) high, 79 ½ in. (202 cm.) wide, 35 ½ in. (89 cm.) deep

Provenance

By repute, Palazzo Ricasoli, Florence.
Anonymous Sale (A Florentine Family of Title); Christie's, New York, 30 April 1986, lot 127.

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Lot Essay

Although most design elements, such as the ribbon-tied leaf frieze of the apron, the rosettes, the straight fluted legs and the toupie feet, are fairly common characteristics of the neoclassical taste all over Italy, this console table can still be identified with great probability as Roman. This attribution is based on the presence of the winged Mercury mask of the apron. This specific type of mask was very popular with designers and craftsmen in Rome during the last third of the eighteenth century and was included in all types of furnishings. For a Roman giltwood console table with an apron centered by an almost identical mask, see E. Colle, Il Mobile Rococò in Italia, Milan, 2003, p. 155. For a console table and a chair, also with Mercury masks, see G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Neoclassico in Italia, Milan, 1955, Tav. VI.

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