POSSIBLY MID-18TH CENTURY AND ADAPTED

Name: AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE IN THE FORM OF HERCULES
Brand: POSSIBLY MID-18TH CENTURY AND ADAPTED
Price: 8000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 10,080

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AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE IN THE FORM OF HERCULES

POSSIBLY MID-18TH CENTURY AND ADAPTED

Price Realised USD 10,080

The later serpentine portor marble top resting on a kneeling giltwood carved Hercules, wrapped in the skin of the Nemean lion, and resting on a faux-marble plinth base
36¹⁄₂ in. (92.5 cm.) high, 46¹⁄₄ in. (117.5 cm.) wide, 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This console table is related to a group of tables executed in Rome in the 17th and early 18th centuries which rely on highly sculptural giltwood figures as the base for a large marble top. Noted examples include a large side table in the Grand Salon at the Palazzo Colonna in Rome, featuring two enslaved men (see E. Colle, Il Mobile Barocco in Italia, Milan, 2000, pp. 114-115).