A PAIR OF EMPIRE WHITE-MARBLE DEMI-LUNE CONSOLE TABLES

Lot 35
21.09.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Vendu
£ 693 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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Lot 35 | A PAIR OF EMPIRE WHITE-MARBLE DEMI-LUNE CONSOLE TABLES
Valeur estimée
£ 100 000 – 200 000
A PAIR OF EMPIRE WHITE-MARBLE DEMI-LUNE CONSOLE TABLES

CIRCA 1805

Each with integral frieze carved with beading above ribboned laurel-leaf swags flanked by laurel wreaths, supported by two pairs of spreading stop-fluted columns on a rectangular low plinth and panelled pilasters carved with trailing leaves centred by a rosette

40 1/4 in. (102 cm.) high; 48 1/2 in. (123 cm.) wide; 24 1/2 in. (62 cm.) deep





Provenance

Elisa Bonaparte, Princess of Lucca and Piombino, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, (1777-1820) at the Villa Reale di Marlia until 1815.

Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca (1782-1824), at the Villa Reale,

thence by descent with the Dukes of Bourbon-Parma.

Countess Pecci-Blunt (1885-1971), Villa Reale di Marlia (acquired 1923).





Literature

E. Schlumberger, 'Un palais décoré par Elisa Bonaparte', Connaissance des Arts, August 1957, vol. 66, p. 48-53, ill. p. 49-50.



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