A Florentine Rococo carved giltwood console table

The scagliola top second half 19th century. Reduced in size. Old wood worm damage, not extensive. Some carved elements later. Regilt, now with some losses, chips, and rubbing to gilding. Legs retipped. Some small chips to gesso. Restored breaks to carving and small chips and losses. Top with some light scratches and areas of rubbing to decoration with some subsequent losses. Some stains and wear to top.
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Even though the design of this console table clearly derives from late Roman Baroque furniture and sculpture, some of its characteristics are distinctly Florentine. These qualities include the slender bodies of the harpies and the sharp profiles of their faces, particularly in the lines of the noses, that can be compared to some of the drawings by the sculptors Giovanni Battista Foggini and the head of the Granducal Guardaroba, Diacinto Maria Marmi. The carving on this table is more detailed and less rotund than on Roman examples. The wings of the female supports, for example, are smaller and more defined in their carving and so are the scrolls of the apron. Furthermore, the manner in which the figures in the rear are cut towards the wall are completely different from what was done in Rome.
In 1750, a craftsman working for the Grand Ducal court supplied the Palazzo della Crocetta in Florence with six tables carved with festoons, foliage and “harpies and sirens on the corners.” This description reminds one of the table offered here. For similar Florentine Rococo tables, see Alvar González-Palacios Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1986, p. 28, fig. 8 and Enrico Colle, I mobili di Palazzo Pitti. Il primo periodo lorenese, Firenze-Torino, 1992, pp. 103-104.