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An Italian carved giltwood console table, Rome, circa 1750

Estimate

50,000 - 100,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

the serpentine fior di pesco marble top with a finely cast gilt-bronze border, above a pierced apron, on scrolled legs joined by an x-form stretcher on scrolled feet, the whole boldly carved with scrolls, rocaille, acanthus and foliage


Height. 35 in, width. 51 1/2 in, depth. 24 in ; Haut. 89 cm, larg. 131 cm, prof. 61 cm

Principi Borghese, at Palazzo Borghese, Rome until 1892; 

Sold Rome, 9 April 1892, Catalogue des Objets d’Art et d’Ameublement qui garnissent le Grand Apartment au Premier Etage du Palais du Prince Borghese ‘a Rome, Mm. Giacomini & Capobianchi, lot 544. 

Archivio Segreto di Vaticano, Archivo Borghese, 458, Inventario generale Palazzo Nobile di Roma, fol.155, where listed in the apartements of Francesco Borghese, Principe Aldobrandini – “2. Picoli tavolini Antichi tutti intagliati e dorati e tavola sopra di fiori di Persico (…) e guarnita di metali dorati….65”,


RELATED LITERATURE

A. González-Palacios (ed.), Fasto Romano: Dipinti, Sculture, Arredi dai Pallazi di Roma (exh.cat), Roma, 1991, nr. 100, p. 176.

E. Colle, Il mobile rococò in Italia, Milan, 2003.

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