An Italian two-tone carved giltwood console table, Florentine first quarter 18th century

with a rectangular moulded Spanish brocatello, bianco e nero and giallo antico marble top above a pierced frieze centred by a female mask amongst scrolls and acanthus on square tapering legs headed by grotesque masks on either side and stylised foliage joined by a baluster and square tapering x-form stretcher centred by a roundel carved with a further grotesque mask and centred by a flaming neo-classical urn

In overall good conserved condition. Old very minor restorations and replacements to the marble and areas of infill. The base has some miniscule chips which are hardly noticable. The table has been regilt. There are also some areas of reblocking beneath the top which is normal which has had some minor restorations . The rear wooden edge beneath the marble top has been painted yellow and there is a minor section of recarving to the acanthus tips below the mask on the front frieze. Some hairline cracks generally commensurate with normal age and usage. Attractive detail to carving.
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Comparative Literature:
E. Colle, Il Mobile Barocco in Italia, Milan, 2000, p. 191, illustrates various related Florentine console tables dating to the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

They bear similarities with the offered console table in that the plain frieze suspends a pierced scrolled apron centered by a mask. The inverted baluster legs of square section can be seen on a table illustrated by Colle, op. cit. p. 191, now in a Private Collection. The latter and the other tables may well have been inspired by a design for a console table by Giovan Battista Foggini circa 1713-1718, (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence). The illustrated tables also have composite stretchers centerd by an urn finial, as on this console table.