Lot 24
A Roman early 18th century giltwood console table
9 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£20,000 - £30,000
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A Roman early 18th century giltwood console table
the rectangular Rouge Royal veneered marble top above a scrolling foliate frieze centred to the front by a female mask, flanked to each side by floral garlands and 'C'-scrolls, on deeply scrolling legs each decorated with a further carved head, on scroll feet, each joined by a shaped stretcher centred by a winged grotesque mask surmounted by a foliate palmette, the surround stretcher under the marble later, some restoration, 161cm wide, 75cm deep, 93.5cm high (63in wide, 29 1/2in deep, 36 1/2in high).
Footnotes
The overall form of this table with mask-centred frieze, carved 'C'-scrolled legs and scrolling feet incorporating distinctive grotesque mask, relate it closely to a specific group of side tables today in the Palazzo Quirinale in Rome. (Illustrated in A. González-Palacios, Il Patrimonio Artistico del Quirinale I Mobili Italiani, Milan, 1996, cat. 46-47, pp. 158-166).
Another Roman console table, featuring legs of very similar profile and also with female masks and grotesques, once in the Palazzo Barberini, and now in the Palazzo Corsini, Rome, is illustrated in A. González-Palacios, Il Mobile nei Secoli Italia, Milan, 1969, fig.27.
