An Italian late 18th/early 19th century carved giltwood, gilt gesso and white painted pier table and mirror


The rectangular plate flanked by pilaster angles each with relief-carved pendant harpy, winged Mercury mask, scrolled foliate, skeletal ram's mask, exotic bird, serpent-handled urn and athenienne strapwork interspersed with classical figural and profile bust tablets, surmounted by an alternating palmette and acanthus frieze flanked by Bacchus masks, the table above a Siena marble top with an S-scroll, foliate and roundel bust frieze below flanked by ribbon-tied laurel wreaths, on two hippocamp front monopodiae, with a mirrored back over a concave plinth base, the mirror: 218cm high, 118cm wide (85.5' high, 46' wide); the console table: 94cm high, 125cm wide, 33cm deep (49in wide, 12 1/2in deep, 37in high) (2)
|ProvenanceSotheby's, 2 December 2008, Important Continental Furniture, Ceramics and Clocks, lot 207.