PROBABLY ROME, CIRCA 1775

Name: A ITALIAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE
Brand: PROBABLY ROME, CIRCA 1775
Price: 30000.00 USD
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Closed: 19 Apr 2023

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A ITALIAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE

PROBABLY ROME, CIRCA 1775

Closed: 19 Apr 2023

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The lumachella marble top with ormolu edging, frieze centering an ebonized cartouche with monogram featuring the letters 'T C A S' and further carved with swans, fruit baskets, laurel swags and figureheads, the turned and tapered legs with fluting and leaf-tip carving
36³⁄₄ in. (93.3 cm.) high, 63 in. (160 cm.) wide, 31¹⁄₂ in. (80 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 16 December 1998, lot 196.

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Lot Essay

Distinctively Italian in origin, this stately and highly architectural side table is most probably the product of a Roman workshop. The pronounced legs composed of a numerous differing elements and the male masks accentuating the corners of the apron all point to Rome as a place of manufacture. Although elaborately carved legs in a variety of shapes were much used throughout the Italian peninsula, they were particularly favored in Rome and Tuscany, with Roman examples being especially robust and imaginative in design, such as in the case of this table. For a Roman armchair and a table conceived in the same spirit and now in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, see G. Morazzoni, , Milan, 1955, tav. VI. The bearded masks at the corners of the frieze are late Neoclassical features that evolved from earlier human and animal heads seamlessly integrated into the legs and which were typical to Roman furniture making and can be seen on numerous tables, such as a pair sold Christie’s, New York, 14 October 2009, lot 40, a console table in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (inv. no. 64.70), and one in the Musei Capitolini, Rome, see A. Gonzáles-Palacios, , vol. II, Milan, 1984, p. 79, fig. 152. The apron of the Roman table in the Capitoline Museum is also hung with multiple garlands, similarly to this lot. All of the above decorative features can also be found in the , and more particularly in his 1768 , of the most well-known and admired Roman designer, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, see Morazzoni, ., tav. II.