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A PAIR OF ITALIAN OCHRE AND GREY-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLES

Lot 50
21.09.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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£ 214 200
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 812954
Lot 50 | A PAIR OF ITALIAN OCHRE AND GREY-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLES
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
A PAIR OF ITALIAN OCHRE AND GREY-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLES

PIEDMONT, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Each with a moulded diaspro tenero di Sicilia marble top with a slate and siena marble border above a

foliate frieze with a harebell border centred by a foliate pendant flanked by scrolling acanthus leaves, the legs carved with scrolling and foliate motifs and joined by a waved X-shaped stretcher centred by a flowerhead, refreshments to the painted decoration

35 1/2 in. (90.5 cm.) high; 55 in. (137.5 cm.) wide; 26 3/4 in. (68 cm.) deep





Provenance

Collection of Gian Giacomo Vitale, Palazzina Vitale, now the Palazzina Biscaretti di Ruffia, Turin (in the Grand Salon).



Literature

H. Millon, The Triumph of the Baroque. Architecture in Europe 1600-1750, London, 1999, p. 352.

E. Colle, Il Mobile Barocco in Italia, Milan, 2000, p. 424.



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Architettura Italiana Moderna, 1906, no. 2;

Società degli ingegneri e degli architetti in Torino, Beni culturali ambientali nel Comune di Torino, Turin, 1984, vol. I, no. 300, p. 336.



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