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A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND GILT-VARNISHED SILVERED ('MECCA') DEMI-LUNE CONSOLE TABLES
Lot 30 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
(Lots 30-31)

A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND GILT-VARNISHED SILVERED ('MECCA') DEMI-LUNE CONSOLE TABLES

NAPLES, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Closed8 July 2010

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A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND GILT-VARNISHED SILVERED ('MECCA') DEMI-LUNE CONSOLE TABLES
NAPLES, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with a white marble moulded top above a stiff-leaf carved frieze with meandering floral sprays, centred by a ribbon-tied foliate spray, on turned tapering and fluted legs headed by downswept leaves and terminating in toupie feet
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 51¾ in. (131.5 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (59.5 cm.) deep (2)

Specialist note

Related Neapolitan consoles of demi-lune form and with similarly delicately-carved foliate decoration to the frieze are illustrated in G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Neoclassico Italiano, Milan, 1955, figs. CCXXII-CCXXVI, and in W. Odom, A History of Italian Furniture, New York, 1967, vol. II, p. 270, fig. 327.