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WELCOME TO PELHAM GALLERIES |
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| A Pair of North Italian Neoclassical Giltwood and Polychrome Corner Console Tables
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Probably Genoa, Circa 1785
Height: 3 ft. 2 ½ in. (98 cm)
Depth: 1 ft. 7 in. (48 cm)
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The grey marble tops on a moulded base above a frieze carved with a central rosette reserve flanked by scrolling acanthus on the original pale blue ground, raised on a single round tapering fluted column ending on an acanthus bulb foot and headed by a richly carved acanthus capital on a round greek-key carved base.
The quintessentially Italian form of a small wall or corner console on a single column found particular favour during the neoclassical period in the northern Italian centres of Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria. Examples of tables conceived in a comparable spirit to this pair are illustrated in Enrico Colle, Il Mobile Neoclassico in Italia (Milan 2005), p.392, and Alvar Gonález-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria (Genoa 1996), p.303, fig.353. The use of gilt neoclassical decoration on a pale blue ground was often encountered in late 18th-century Genoese carved furniture, especially ensembles of pier tables of mirrors (examples illustrated in Colle, no.92, p.392-93 and Gonález-Palacios, p.312, fig.365).
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