A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE

TUSCANY, CIRCA 1790

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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE
TUSCANY, CIRCA 1790
With a demilune brèche violette marble top above a frieze with three lion masks within diamond reserves, above a stylized foliate apron, on tapering foliate-carved legs, with uninscribed blue and red bordered paper labels to underside and in chalk to back rail lot 162
34 in. (86 cm.) high, 47 in. (119 cm.) wide, 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1997, lot 161.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 1998, lot 445 (acquired after the sale).

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Lot Essay

This elegant console, with its relief-carved frieze of classical ornament including lion-masks and paterae, is typical of the work of Tuscan carvers of the 1780's and 1790's. Related consoles were delivered by the intagliatore Luigi Gelati to the Palazzo Pitti, Florence in 1798 (illustrated in E. Colle, I Mobili di Palazzo Pitti: Il primo periodo Lorenese 1737-1799, Florence, 1992, p. 141, cat. 68). A further related console is illustrated in W. Odom, A History of Italian Furniture, New York, 1967, vol. II, p. 283.

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