An Italian neoclassical carved and painted console table, Venice circa 1780

the shaped moulded faux-marble top above a concave frieze and apron on square feather-headed tapering legs

G. Morazzoni, Il mobile veneziano del '700, Milan, 1958, tav. cxci (illustrated).

Related literature:

E. Colle, Il mobile neoclassico in Italia, Milan, 2005, pp. 263-69.

In good condition, the painted decoration has been cleaned. Displaying an attractive cracquelure to the surface, and some losses to the painted decoration, in particular to the twisted ribbon frieze and legs. Some light construction and shrinkage cracks, most notably to the top.
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The neoclassical style arrives late in Venice, whose palaces had seen the most exuberantly idiosyncratic flourishing of the gout rocaille. First in the new taste was the residence of Count Mangilli at Santi Apostoli, its interiors redecorated by native architect Giannantonio Selva (1754-1819), who also designed the furniture. 

The present console table stands out as the most accomplished piece of the long 'transitional' period between the rococo and neoclassical styles in the Serenissima. It relates to a group of furniture which included commodes as well as tables displaying a well-balanced mixture of carved decoration such as ribbons, rosettes, and most characteristic of all, cammeos, and a light painted decoration of flower sprays on a classically lacquered empty surface. (See, for example, a console table in the Fondazione Querini Stampalia ill. in Colle, op. cit., p. 274.)