A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN EMPIRE PARCEL-GILT, CREAM AND WHITE-PAINTED AND SIMULATED-MARBLE CONSOLE TABLES

Lot 42
21.09.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 42 | A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN EMPIRE PARCEL-GILT, CREAM AND WHITE-PAINTED AND SIMULATED-MARBLE CONSOLE TABLES
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£ 40 000 – 60 000
A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN EMPIRE PARCEL-GILT, CREAM AND WHITE-PAINTED AND SIMULATED-MARBLE CONSOLE TABLES

MILAN, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Each with rectangular white marble top above a palmette and rosette applied frieze, on winged eagle-headed supports and a concave faux marble plinth, with mirrored back, with printed label for PALL MALL DEPOSIT AND FORWARDING COMPANY LIMITED

37 1/2 in. (95.3 cm.) high; 52 1/2 in. (133.4 cm.) wide; 23 1/4 in. (59.1 cm.) deep





Provenance

From the foyer of Teatro della Scala, Milan.

Acquired by Mrs Audrey Field (née James; later Mrs Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie) circa 1938 for the Ballroom of Holme House, Regent's Park, London, and subsequently moved in 1946 in Julians Park, Hertfordshire.

Julians Park and Six Private Collections; sold Christie's, London, 8 June 2021, lot 46.



Literature

'A House in Regent's Park. The Hon. Mrs. Peter Pleydell-Bouverie's home, Holme House', Country Life, 20 April 1940, p. 416, fig. 2 (one shown in the Ballroom).

J. Archer Abbott, Jansen, New York, 2006, p. 127.



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