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    29 - 30 March 2001

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    • AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GREEN AN
    Lot 153

    AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GREEN AND YELLOW-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE

    CIRCA 1770, POSSIBLY UMBRIA

    Price realised

    USD 4,465

    Estimate

    USD 4,000 - USD 6,000

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    AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GREEN AND YELLOW-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE
    Circa 1770, possibly Umbria
    The simulated mottled green marble rectangular top with molded edge overhanging a plain frieze painted to three sides with scrolling acanthus garlands, on tapering square legs with short toupie feet
    32½in. (82.5cm.) high, 33½in. (85cm.) wide, 20¼in. (51.5cm.) deep

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    Lot Essay

    The stylized foliate decoration found on the frieze of this small painted table is similar to an Umbrian table illustrated in G. Cantelli, Il Mobile Umbro, Milan, 1973, pp. 159. The legs also relate to another table of the same region, illustrated in Cantelli op. cit, p. 166.

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