A Mallorcan carved giltwood console table and mirror late 18th century

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

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Description

console: 92cm. high, 106cm. wide, 50cm. deep, 3ft. ¼in., 3ft. 5¾in., 1ft. 7¾in.; mirror: 254cm. high, 106cm. wide; 8ft. 4in., 3ft. 5¾in.

the mirror with two reclining sphinxes underneath a cresting with a two-handled neoclassical vase resting on a bearded mask, the rectangular mirror plate hung with trails of stylised leaves to the sides and with two tapering toupie feet flanking an apron centred by an oval profile medallion, the console table with projecting corners and a white marble top above a pierced guilloche frieze and a large profile medallion to the apron hung with laurel leaf swags, flanked by stylised flowerheads to the corners, above circular tapering legs surmounted by block capitols and resting on ball feeet

Catalogue Note

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Jeroni, Martorell, Interiors, Barcelona, 1925, p. XXXIV

A similar mirror can be found in the Estate of Don J. de la Trincheria, Barcelona.