A Roman carved softwood console table
A Roman carved softwood console table
An important monumental Baroque console table. The marble-veneered stone top resting on four serpentine legs with pad-feet, decorated to the knees with female busts. The x-form stretcher centered by the head of a satyr. The curved openwork apron with a mascaron to the front. Older insect damage, cracks, losses to the wood and to the marble veneer. H 100, W ca. 220, D 86 cm.
1st quarter 18th C.
Provenance
From the collection of a Rhenish industrialist family.
Literature
For this type and the motifs cf.: Colle, Il mobile Barocco in Italie, Milan, 2000, p. 124ff.
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A Roman carved softwood console table
An important monumental Baroque console table. The marble-veneered stone top resting on four serpentine legs with pad-feet, decorated to the knees with female busts. The x-form stretcher centered by the head of a satyr. The curved openwork apron with a mascaron to the front. Older insect damage, cracks, losses to the wood and to the marble veneer. H 100, W ca. 220, D 86 cm.
1st quarter 18th C.
Provenance
From the collection of a Rhenish industrialist family.
Literature
For this type and the motifs cf.: Colle, Il mobile Barocco in Italie, Milan, 2000, p. 124ff.
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Time, Location
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