Live Auction 8012Lyons Demesne Works of Art from The Collection of The Late Dr. Tony Ryan
A PIEDMONTESE GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE
Lot 387

A PIEDMONTESE GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE

LATE 18TH CENTURY

Closed14 July 2011

Price Realised

GBP 15,000

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A PIEDMONTESE GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE
LATE 18TH CENTURY
The English demi-lune white marble and scagliola top with blue-ribboned oak-leaf band within a pearled edge, above a laurel band and a pierced Greek-key frieze with blued metal backing and divided by bardiglio marble-backed white marble reliefs with Chinoiserie children to the front and foliage to each side, on turned strigillated legs headed by an eagle on a sphere, on foliate toupie feet, the feet replaced
34¼ in. (87 cm.) high; 64 in. (163 cm.) wide; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) deep

Specialist note

This table's elliptical frieze is embellished with pearl-strings and a fretted Grecian ribbon-scroll incorporating jasper-like tablets of sporting youths set above three legs. The central tablet is displayed, like a Roman signum-standard, above a strigil-fluted and acanthus-wrapped sphere. Its design, including the tablet of festive youths, relates to that of furniture designed by Giocondo Albertolli in the late 1780s for the Villa Reale at Monza (A. Gonzlez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1986, vol. II, fig. 657).