18th-Century Florentine Console Table | Antique Furniture

Console Table
Florence, last quarter of the 18th century

Description:

A grand palace console table, carved and gilt, with truncated pyramidal legs ending in ball feet. The legs are embellished with carved acanthus clusters that wrap around the tapered shafts. The uprights terminate in carved turned elements with a pronounced central constriction, joining the apron, which is decorated with small rosettes set within reserved panels.

The table apron is carved with an interlaced Greek key (meander) motif forming medallions. At the center, a reserved panel contains a painted classical profile rendered in ochre tones against a blue background, beneath which hangs a carved apron ornamented with acanthus leaves. The background of the apron is finely worked with burin engraving and framed by two elegant classical borders of repeating leaves.

The table is topped with a magnificent pietra serena slab veneered with Breccia Medicea marble.

Dimensions: 89 × 170 × 69 cm

Code: ANTACO0313822

Historical-stylistic analysis:

This piece is characteristic of Tuscan Neoclassical production. Enrico Colle illustrates a pair of tables featuring the same leg design and a closely comparable central medallion with classical profiles. These two tables, housed in the Palazzo Pitti, are attributed by the scholar to the circle of Lorenzo Dolci.

Comparative bibliography:

– Giuseppe Morazzoni, Il mobile neoclassico italiano, ed. Gorlich Milano 1955
– Enrico Colle, I mobili di Palazzo Pitti, il primo periodo lorenese 1737-1799, ed. Allemandi & C. 1997
– Enrico Colle, Il mobile neoclassico in Italia, ed. Electa 2005

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