Lot 318
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A Fine Italian Neoclassical Gilt-Wood Console Giovanni Battista Piranesi Circa 1770 Height 93 cm, length 155 cm, width 71 cm.
A Fine Italian Neoclassical Gilt-Wood Console Giovanni Battista Piranesi Circa 1770 Height 93 cm, length 155 cm, width 71 cm.

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A Fine Italian Neoclassical Gilt-Wood Console Giovanni Battista Piranesi Circa 1770 Height 93 cm, length 155 cm, width 71 cm.
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The shaped rectangular serpentine-fronted grey and white moulded marble top above a porcelain frieze centered by a cartouche with the initials "C.T." surmounted by a crown, flanked by foliate C-scrolls with similar sides, raised on incurved C-scrolled supports joined by a pierced cartouche-shaped stretcher, now painted cream and highlighted with gilding, the porcelain white and highlighted with gilding.

Lot Essay

The gilt monogram on the central part of the porcelain insert incorporates the initials C.T., which stands for Carl Theodor, Elector of Palatinate (1742-1799), (Palatinate is a name which was generally given to any district formerly ruled by count Palatine, but in this case refers to a district of Germany, a province of the Republic of Bavaria lying to the west of the Rhine). The Frankenthal porcelain factory was located in the town of Frankenthal from 1755-1795 approximately 6 miles from Schoss Oggersheim ; it was moved to Grünstadt in 1795.