A North Italian Neoclassical carved giltwood console table probably Piedmont, circa 1780

The finely detailed carving of this elegant console is characteristic of the circle of carvers and cabinet makers in Turin patronized by the Royal family. The most celebrated of these was Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo (1745-1820), who worked for the court from 1773, however, other skilled craftsmen such as Francesco Tanadei, Giuseppe Marchino, Francesco Bolgie and Bartolomeo Manghetti, working around Bonzanigo, were also commissioned to provide work for Stupinigi, Moncalieri, Venaria, Rivoli and most of all for the Palazzo Reale in the centre of Turin. For a comparable table, see Roberto Antonetto, Il mobile piemontese nel settecento, Torino, 2010, p. 388, fig. 10.A,12, and p.394 for a bed carved by Bartolomeo Manghetti