An Italian painted and parcel-gilt carved console table, Roman Roman Baroque

with a shaped moulded leather inset top supported by the arms of a kneeling mermaid with vines and grapes draped around her hips, flanked by foliate swags, on a shaped base, with a label underneath inscribed in black ink Marinelli

Comparative Literature:
Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto,, Milan, 1986, Vol. II,  p. 31, fig. 13, illustrates a design by Diacinto Maria Marmi for a console table-see fig.1 (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Uffizi, Florence), upon which this table is maybe inspired.

Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Arredi e Ornamento alla Corte di Roma 1560-1795, Milan, 2004, p. 128, illustrates a base conceived in a similar vein, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 1972.73).