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A fine Italian carved giltwood console table in the Regence manner Genoese, circa 1725-1735 with a moulded mottled green marble top above a pierced frieze centred by a child's mask within a scrolled cartouche on female sphinxes reclining on a scrolled bracket carved with foliage terminating in scroll feet, joined by an 'X'-form stretcher, carved with the mask of Mercury flanked by a grotesque mask on each side, the whole carved with trails of flowers on rocaille 96cm. high; 141cm. wide; 3ft. 1Iin., 4ft. 7Iin. Comparative Literature: Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genova, 1996, illustrates a virtually identical console table, probably the pair to the present piece, page 153, pl. 179 (already in the Castle of Arenzano, Genoa) and again ill. in G. Wa
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A fine Italian carved giltwood console table in the Regence manner
Genoese, circa 1725-1735
with a moulded mottled green marble top above a pierced frieze centred by a child's mask within a scrolled cartouche on female sphinxes reclining on a scrolled bracket carved with foliage terminating in scroll feet, joined by an 'X'-form stretcher, carved with the mask of Mercury flanked by a grotesque mask on each side, the whole carved with trails of flowers on rocaille
96cm. high; 141cm. wide; 3ft. 1Iin., 4ft. 7Iin.
Comparative Literature:
Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genova, 1996, illustrates a virtually identical console table, probably the pair to the present piece, page 153, pl. 179 (already in the Castle of Arenzano, Genoa) and again ill. in G. Wannenes, Mobili d' Italia, Milano, 1984, page 128.
The same author, op. cit., illustrates two other Genoese console tables with winged sphinxes resting on legs derived from earlier French models, distinctively carved with strapwork in low relief, a motif which re-appears on other recorded examples of Genoese consoles of the same period.
A fine Italian carved giltwood console table in the Regence manner
Genoese, circa 1725-1735
with a moulded mottled green marble top above a pierced frieze centred by a child's mask within a scrolled cartouche on female sphinxes reclining on a scrolled bracket carved with foliage terminating in scroll feet, joined by an 'X'-form stretcher, carved with the mask of Mercury flanked by a grotesque mask on each side, the whole carved with trails of flowers on rocaille
96cm. high; 141cm. wide; 3ft. 1Iin., 4ft. 7Iin.
Comparative Literature:
Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genova, 1996, illustrates a virtually identical console table, probably the pair to the present piece, page 153, pl. 179 (already in the Castle of Arenzano, Genoa) and again ill. in G. Wannenes, Mobili d' Italia, Milano, 1984, page 128.
The same author, op. cit., illustrates two other Genoese console tables with winged sphinxes resting on legs derived from earlier French models, distinctively carved with strapwork in low relief, a motif which re-appears on other recorded examples of Genoese consoles of the same period.
Genoese, circa 1725-1735
with a moulded mottled green marble top above a pierced frieze centred by a child's mask within a scrolled cartouche on female sphinxes reclining on a scrolled bracket carved with foliage terminating in scroll feet, joined by an 'X'-form stretcher, carved with the mask of Mercury flanked by a grotesque mask on each side, the whole carved with trails of flowers on rocaille
96cm. high; 141cm. wide; 3ft. 1Iin., 4ft. 7Iin.
Comparative Literature:
Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genova, 1996, illustrates a virtually identical console table, probably the pair to the present piece, page 153, pl. 179 (already in the Castle of Arenzano, Genoa) and again ill. in G. Wannenes, Mobili d' Italia, Milano, 1984, page 128.
The same author, op. cit., illustrates two other Genoese console tables with winged sphinxes resting on legs derived from earlier French models, distinctively carved with strapwork in low relief, a motif which re-appears on other recorded examples of Genoese consoles of the same period.
A fine Italian carved giltwood console table in the Regence manner
Genoese, circa 1725-1735
with a moulded mottled green marble top above a pierced frieze centred by a child's mask within a scrolled cartouche on female sphinxes reclining on a scrolled bracket carved with foliage terminating in scroll feet, joined by an 'X'-form stretcher, carved with the mask of Mercury flanked by a grotesque mask on each side, the whole carved with trails of flowers on rocaille
96cm. high; 141cm. wide; 3ft. 1Iin., 4ft. 7Iin.
Comparative Literature:
Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genova, 1996, illustrates a virtually identical console table, probably the pair to the present piece, page 153, pl. 179 (already in the Castle of Arenzano, Genoa) and again ill. in G. Wannenes, Mobili d' Italia, Milano, 1984, page 128.
The same author, op. cit., illustrates two other Genoese console tables with winged sphinxes resting on legs derived from earlier French models, distinctively carved with strapwork in low relief, a motif which re-appears on other recorded examples of Genoese consoles of the same period.