
Property of a Nobleman
Auction Closed
July 5, 02:05 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Nobleman
A set of four Italian parcel-gilt and painted console tables, Rome, circa 1765-75
each with a serpentine fior di pesco marble top with a gilt-bronze border, above a frieze carved with gadroons and centred by a shell and further stylized foliage from which issues a garland of foliage joined at the bottom to the scrolled legs, one with paper label with inventory number 759
each 92cm. high, 55cm. wide, 28cm. deep; 3ft.¼in., 1ft. 9⅝in., 11in.
Thence by descent, probably at Palazzo Chigi, Rome, until 1917, to;
Eleonora, principessa Chigi della Rovere (1871-1962);
Thence by direct descent to the present owner.
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