A Pair of Italian Neoclassical Painted and Parcel-Gilt Corner Brackets Third Quarter 18th Century, Possibly Genoa

formerly with wooden tops, the associated Alicante rouge marble top above a molded egg-and-dart and dentil frieze, the curved supports carved with acanthus leaves, the backplate painted to simulate porphyry and flanked by quartered columns, the egg-and-dart base carved with lions masks and ending in a leaf-carved, berried knop.