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AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT AND BRONZED CONSOLE TABLE
Lot 658

AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT AND BRONZED CONSOLE TABLE

LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY, THE TOP AND PLINTH LATER, PROBABLY ROME

Closed10 December 2014

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GBP 8,125

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AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT AND BRONZED CONSOLE TABLE
LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY, THE TOP AND PLINTH LATER, PROBABLY ROME
The inverted breakfront moulded top hung with elaborately carved garlands of fruit and foliage, above a sea-god and goddess figure centred by a scallop shell, re-decorated, restorations
42 in. (107 cm.) high; 72 in. (183 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

This boldly carved console with its scrolled Triton and Sea-Goddess centred by an enlarged scallop shell relates to a deeper carved console dating to the end of the 17th Century in the Palazzo Reale, Milan (see S. Colombo, L' Arte del Mobile in Italia, fig. 171).