Pair of small Neo-Classical console tables

End of the 18th century. Cream-painted softwood tables on tapering fluted legs, the legs partly decorated with gold leaf, also with gold painting, the frieze with fine floral gold applications, the corners with heads of Medusa in high relief, with a continuous foliate moulding and verde antico marble-tops. Each 85x 87 x 50 cm. Some of the paintwork retouched, but the applications are untouched, some ageing and wear, with some losses to the verde antico marble-tops. (DOC)

Provenance:
formerly Palais Modena in Vienna (today the Ministry of the Interior)