Thomas Moore
Head of Department
Lot 1TP
An Italian late 17th/early 18th century giltwood console table of Venetian origin, the simulated marble decorated top of a later date
17 November 2021, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £9,000
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An Italian late 17th/early 18th century giltwood console table
of Venetian origin, the simulated marble decorated top of a later date
The shaped simulated marble decorated top with a reverse ogee moulded edge, on two angled and projecting oversize S-scroll supports carved with flowers, fruit and acanthus foliage, flanking a central winged cherub holding a scroll aloft, below a fruiting floral swag (one segment missing) with conforming carving to the waved and scrolled stretchers, on moulded faux marble decorated plinth bases, the top probably 19th century, 144cm wide x 53cm deep x 95cm high, (56 1/2in wide x 20 1/2in deep x 37in high)
The shaped simulated marble decorated top with a reverse ogee moulded edge, on two angled and projecting oversize S-scroll supports carved with flowers, fruit and acanthus foliage, flanking a central winged cherub holding a scroll aloft, below a fruiting floral swag (one segment missing) with conforming carving to the waved and scrolled stretchers, on moulded faux marble decorated plinth bases, the top probably 19th century, 144cm wide x 53cm deep x 95cm high, (56 1/2in wide x 20 1/2in deep x 37in high)
Footnotes
Purchased
Sotheby's, London, 10 June 1999, Important Continental Furniture and Tapestries, lot 61.
A related design by the renowned and virtuoso wood carver Andrea Brustolon (1662-1732) for a console table, which is similar to the offered lot, appears illustrated in both E. Colle, Il Mobile Barocco in Italia, 2000, Milan, p. 308 and A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Le Arti Decorative in Italia fra Classicismi e Barocco, La Toscana e l'Italia Sttentrionale, 1986, Milan, fig. 760, p. 362.
Brustolon's drawing, which is housed in the Musei Civici de Belluno, is a pen, ink and watercolour work executed on paper, however unfortunately it was evidently not dated.
