Lot 186
  • 186

A fine Italian carved giltwood and painted console table and mirror, Genoese late 18th century

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • console 101cm. high, 136cm. wide, 69cm. deep; 3ft. 3¾in., 4ft. 5½in., 2ft. 3in. mirror 220cm. high, 133cm. wide; 7ft. 2½in., 4ft. 4¼in.
the green-painted and giltwood mirror with a divided plate within a guilloche carved border, below a cornice, the cresting carved with birds and scrolls flanking three classical vases, the console with a rectangular mottled marble top, above a pierced frieze with guilloche panels flanking a central reserve with a classical lady and cherub, the corners carved with profile medallions and a Greek key motif, above circular fluted tapering legs surmounted by acanthus leaf carved capitols and raised on toupie feet

Catalogue Note

A mirror with a similar cornice and birds, scrolls and neoclassical vases on the cresting is illustrated by Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genoa, 1996, p. 305, fig. 356.