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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE

PIEDMONT, LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
PIEDMONT, LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular red, white and black mottled breccia Africana marble top with moulded edge, above a tapering frieze with foliate and shell motifs, on scrolling and acanthus-wrapped S-shaped supports joined by an X-shaped undertier centered by a foliate flowerhead finial, minor losses to gilding with some consequential refreshments, with Pietro Accorsi trade label numbered '6665/2'
37¼ in. (94.5 cm.) high; 54¼ in. (138 cm.) wide; 26¾ in. (68 cm.) deep
Provenance
With Pietro Accorsi, Turin, in the 1950's
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Derived from designs produced in the late 17th Century, the distinctive acanthus wrapped S-scroll supports of this console table, as well as the large scale finial to the stretcher, are very much reminiscent of a Turinese design for a console, now in the Savoia-Carignano collection of designs in the State archives in Turin, (E. Colle, Il Mobile Barocco in Italia, Milan, 2000, p.424.) Other related Piedmontese related consoles are in Galleria Sabauda, Turin, as well as in Palazzo Mazzetti in Asti.

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