Details
The later black marble tops above an egg-and-dart and Greek-key carved frieze and satyr and lion monopodia supports
3612 in. (93 cm.) high, 53 in. (134.5 cm.) wide, 2334 in. (61 cm.) deep
Provenance
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection; Christie's, New York, 22 November 2011, lot 52.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 14 October 2014, lot 177.
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Lot Essay

These splendid console tables, with their imaginative combination of imposing Italian baroque monopodia supports and English friezes with their Greek key ornament recalling the Palladian designs of William Kent, reflect a sophisticated "antiquarian" taste. The fantastical monopodia supports, with their bearded and grotesque masks, reflect the influence of the late 17th Century Florentine designer, Diacinto Maria Marmi, who executed designs for a series of tables of similar inspiration (see E. Colle, Il Mobile Barocco in Italia, Milan, 2000, p. 192, and A. González-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto: Toscana e l'Italia Settentrionale, Milan,1986, vol. II, pp. 29-31).

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