Live Auction 6803Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD AND GREEN PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE
Lot 283

A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD AND GREEN PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE

PROBABLY ROMAN, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Closed25 September 2012

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GBP 6,875

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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD AND GREEN PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE
PROBABLY ROMAN, LATE 18TH CENTURY
With a shaped violet Jura brocatelle marble top above an entwined foliate frieze centred by a Satyr mask issuing laurel swags, supported by rams' head monopodia terminating in cloven feet, minor losses, redecoration and restoration
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 45½ in. (105.5 cm.) wide; 21¾ in. (55.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

This stylish console, modelled in the á l'antique form, incorporates a number of features associated with the celebrated designer Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), specifically the ram's head monopodia. Piranesi's style was enormously influential in Rome during the 1760s and 1770s. For a pair of Roman console tables, circa 1775 in the manner of Piranesi, see The William F. Reilly Collection, Christie's New York, 14 October 2009, lot 40.