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A NORTH ITALIAN MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLE AND ENSUITE MIRROR
Lot 194

A NORTH ITALIAN MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLE AND ENSUITE MIRROR

BY HENRY PETERS OF GENOA, CIRCA 1835, POSSIBLY DESIGNED BY FILIPPO PELAGIO PALAGI

Closed1 April 2014

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GBP 8,500

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A NORTH ITALIAN MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLE AND ENSUITE MIRROR
BY HENRY PETERS OF GENOA, CIRCA 1835, POSSIBLY DESIGNED BY FILIPPO PELAGIO PALAGI
The mirror finely carved with Grecian ornament, the console carved with similar motifs and with a dark green Breccia marble top above two drawers, one drawer stamped 'PETERS GENOA'
The console 40 in. (102 cm.) high; 60.1/2 in. (154 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep. The mirror 65 in. (165 cm.) high; 56.1/2 in. (143.5 cm.) wide

Specialist note

Henry (or Enrico) Peters (d.1852), an Englishman who moved to Genoa around 1817, was one of several outstanding carvers and craftsmen collaborating with the greatest Italian architect/furniture designer of the 1830s and 40s, Filippo Pelagio Palagi (1775-1860). Peters worked under the direction of Palagi at two royal palaces belonging to the House of Savoy: the Palazzo Reale in Turin and the Castle of Racconigi nearby. He went on to receive a silver medal at the 1846 Genoa Great Exhibition of National Manufactures and Products.