An Italian stained sycamore, kingwood, rosewood and parquetry oval centre table in the manner of Giuseppe Antonio Viglione, Turin late 18th century

with four frieze drawers

There is a hairline crack in the outer border of the top, which can either be left or filled. The sabots are dirty and would benefit from a light clean and may well be later additions. There are some very minor sections of veneer missing from the frieze, but these are hardly noticeable. In overall very good condition.
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Comparative Literature:
G. Ferraris, A.  Gonzalez-Palacios, Pietro Piffetti e gli Ebanisti a Torino: 1670-1838.  Turin, 1992, p.192.
E.  Colle, Il Mobile Neoclassico in Italia: Arredi e Decorazioni d'Interni dal 1775 al 1800.  Milan, 2005, p.478. 

Giuseppe Antonio Viglione was born on the 23^rd October 1758 in the Piedmontese town of Cissone Langhe.  On the 4^th January 1786 he was awarded the licence of Mastro Minusiere by Giovanni Zuchola of Turin's Università dei Minusieri, confirming a trading name of 'Giuseppe Viglione'; although it is thought his workshop, near the church of Santa Teresa, was in fact in operation from 1781. According to records in Ferraris' op. cit., Viglione was documented in 1783 as having made two walnut inlaid chest of drawers for the Castello di Masino, under the direction of architect Filippo Castelli, for the Viceroy of Sardinia – Carlo Francesco Valperga, Conte di Masino.
Viglione appeared to have been most active during 1789 with various commissions for tables and cylinder bureau writing desks, one of which, a prie-dieu secrétaire from the collection at Castello di Valcasotto, was sold as lot 71, in these Rooms, from the Estate of the late Giuseppe Rossi, Vol. I, 12^th March 1999. In 1793, he became a board member of the Università dei Minusieri in Turin.  The following year three desks were documented as made by him for the Castello di Rivoli, during the same period in which the apartments for the Duchess of Aosta were being prepared.

He also made three gilt-bronze-mounted wardrobes for the Queen's apartment at the Palazzo Reale in Turin, in July 1797, which was perhaps his most lucrative commission. 

Unfortunately, there is little further information on the cabinet-maker after 1797.