A PAIR OF ITALIAN WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLES

NAPLES, CIRCA 1785-90

Details

A PAIR OF ITALIAN WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLES
NAPLES, CIRCA 1785-90
Each with a shaped Carrara marble top above a frieze carved with a berried laurel band hung with floral swags centred by a female mask, with spirally reeded foliate-carved legs headed by rosettes
34 ¾ in. (88.5 cm.) high; 34 in. (86.5 cm.) wide; 17 ½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

With Bernard Steinitz, Paris.
Property from a Private Connecticut Collection; sold Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 2020, lot 184.

Lot Essay

With their distinctive and boldly carved spirally-reeded legs, this pair of consoles is a remarkable example of Neapolitan furniture from the late 18th century. They are closely related to a white-painted and parcel-gilt console currently in the collection of the Museo Correale, Sorrente, Naples which has almost identical legs and was most likely executed in the same workshop as the present lot.