A pair of North Italian neoclassical carved giltwood and green lacquered corner console tables, probably Genoese or Piedmontese, circa 1785

the grey marble tops above a frieze carved with a central rosette reserve flanked by scrolling acanthus on a pale blue ground, on a single tapering fluted column headed by an acanthus carved capital on a round Greek-key carved base on an acanthus carved toupie foot

These elegant tables are in good conserved condition. They have marks, scratches and chips consistent with age and use, and they retain their apparent original white and grey veined marble tops. There are marks of old woodworm. The feet are scuffed as expected. These tables are ready to be placed.
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Comparative Literature:
Enrico Colle, Il Mobile Neoclassico in Italia, Milan, 2005, p. 392.
Alvar González-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genoa, 1996, p. 303, fig. 353. 

The quintessentially Italian form of a small wall or corner console on a single column found particular favour during the neoclassical period in the northern Italian centres of Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria. 

Several examples of tables conceived in a similar vein to this pair are illustrated by Enrico Colle, op. cit., p. 392, and Alvar González-Palacios, op. cit., p. 303, fig. 353.  The use of gilt neoclassical decoration on a pale blue ground was often employed on late 18^th century Genoese carved furniture, especially ensembles of pier tables of mirrors examples illustrated by Colle, op. cit., no. 92, p. 392-93 and Alvar González-Palacios, op. cit., p. 312, fig. 365.