An Italian carved giltwood console table, Genoese late 18th century

with an inset rectangular Spanish brocatello marble top within a ribbon-tied laurel leaf border above a frieze centred by a grotesque mask above a lunette carved panel suspending oak leaf and acorn swags flanked by recessed panels with a female mask in a hood and with plaits flanked by scrolling foliage, flowers and wheatsheaves on a stippled ground with similarly carved sides, each angle with a grotesque mask suspending oak leaf and acorn swags from its mouth on bulbous tapering spirally fluted legs carved with acanthus and laurel leaves on foliate carved toupie feet

In overall very good conserved condition. An exceptional table in terms of design and the quality of the carving. Some old very minor chips along edge of marble top but these are hardly noticeable as the top is inset. Old very minor chips to the gilding which can easily be touched up. One oak leaf spray right side has been reglued to the frieze. There are some hairline construction cracks at the joints but these can easily be left or filled and are commensurate with age.
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Comparative Literature:
Alvar Gonzáles-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genoa, 1996, p. 307. 

This impressive console table with exquisitely carving has the rare feature of an inset Spanish brocatello marble top. The tapering baluster spirally fluted legs are also highly unusual. Its scale and the quality of the carving would seem to indicate it was conceived  for a grand palazzo.

The bold carving echoes some of the stucco and fresco decoration by Emanuele Andrea Tagliafichi (1729-1811), in Palazzo Spinola in Genoa. The female masks with braids are almost certainly  inspired by F.M. Costas designs for the galleria degli specchi. Also the grotesque mask on the centre of the frieze can also be seen,  in the designs.
Emanuele Andrea Tagliafichi (1729-1811) was an Italian architect who initially trained as a cabinet-maker and his work in Genoa spanned the period of transition between Rococo and Neo-classicism. In 1769, he was involved in the construction of eight rooms on the first floor of the Rostan Reggio Palace in Genoa. In 1770, he began a collaboration with Charles de Wailly (1730-1798) to redecorate the seventeenth-century palace of Cristoforo Spinola in the Strada Nuova which is today in Via Garibaldi. In 1774, Tagliafichi went to Paris for a short period. During the same year he realized the famous spiral staircase for the Durazzo Pallavicini Palace in Genoa. His friendship with Simone Cantoni ( 1736-1818) led to their involvement in the 1778 rebuilding project of the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa. In 1807, he was nominated as the engineer for the Genoa and Spezia Ports which were finished by his son Domenico. Tagliafichi died in 1811 at the age of 82.

A.G.P., op.  cit.,  p. 307, illustrates two Genoese neo-classical console tables with Spanish brocatello marble tops, fig. 358 is similarly carved with a scrolling foliate frieze and the table in fig. 359 has female masks conceived in a similar vein.