Treasures | Paris
Treasures | Paris
An Italian carved giltwood console table, Rome, circa 1750
Auction Closed
December 11, 05:00 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 100,000 EUR
Lot Details
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, 1839, fol.155, where listed in the appartements 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”,
A. González-Palacios, Il Mobile a Roma, 2024, p.115.
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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