The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian & Carolina Irving Collection
The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian & Carolina Irving Collection
A Roman Neoclassical Giltwood Side Table, Circa 1785
Auction Closed
January 30, 06:14 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
with later Egyptian porphyry-veneered top
height 36 ½ in.; width 49 in.; depth 20 ½ in.
93 cm; 124.5 cm; 52 cm
With Lazzaro Vivioli e Figli, Genoa
Sotheby's London, 12 June 2002, lot 362
This table is very similar in inspiration to a console table in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, described as Roman and inspired by the architect Asprucci with similar fluted tapering legs, frieze carved with bellflowers and a Greek theatrical mask with ringlets,
illustrated G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Neoclassico, Milan 1955, plate XIII, fig. B.
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