An Italian parcel-gilt and painted wood console table, after a design by Giacondo Albertolli, Milan, last quarter 18th century

Giuseppe Beretti, Il Mobile dei Lumi, Vol, 1, 2010, p.256, Tav. 16, pp. 474-5, fig. 296, 297.

The companion to the present, thus together once forming a pair of console tables, was sold at Il Ponte, Milan, 29 October 2025, lot 270.

Giocondo Albertolli (1742-1839):

Albertolli was a leading Italian neo-classical ornamental designer and was most well known for his work on Palazzo Reale in Milan where he undertook the interior decoration. He was also responsible for the decoration of Palazzo Pitti in Florence and for his volumes of engraved designs which were very influential on Italian 18th century cabinet-makers such as Maggiolini and Maffezzoli and G.B.M. He trained in Parma where he came into contact with the French designer and architect E.-A. Petitot. In 1775, he became professor at the Milan Accademia di Bella Arti and directed the school of ornament there until 1812. Furthermore his ornamental designs were published in Ornamenti diversi in 1782; Alcune decorazioni di nobili sale in 1787 and Miscellanea per i giovani studiosi del disegno in 1796. He also published Corso elementare di ornamenti architettonici in Milan, in 1805.