Late Baroque Wall Table

Code :  ANTCON0000032

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Late Baroque Wall Table

Code :  ANTCON0000032

not available

Late Baroque Wall Table

Features

Style:  Barocchetto (1720-1770)

Age:  18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Year:  Metà '700

Origin:  Roma, Italy

Main essence:  Linden

Material:  Carved , Yellow Marble of Siena

Description

A Late Baroque wall table with four carved uprights shaped like goat legs linked with a carved cross centered with a shouting mask under the top. Carved volutes on the front and the sides. The mixtilinear top broadens toward the bottom where the legs are horizontal compared to the supportive wall. The top, slabbed with yellow marble of Siena, is antique as the console, but it probably comes from another piece of furniture with a slightly different shape. Manufactured in Rome (Italy), mid 18th century.

Product Condition:
The item shows signs of wear due to age. Any damage or loss is displayed as completely as possible in the pictures. It may require restoration and polishing.

Dimensions (cm):
Height: 89
Width: 114
Depth: 58

Certificate issued by:  Vittorio Cuoccio

Additional Information

Notes historical bibliographic

Characteristics of the type of carving is the anatomical accentuated taste in an emphatic realism of goat legs that are sturdy and monumental in a typical Roman taste. The tone with which the armor in high-flown decorated covers the leg thigh as well as carved wings placed behind his knees, are reflected in a Roman console created to Castelgandolfo and dated 1747 and attributed to the sculptor g. Corsini. These elements are present in another console located at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Palazzo Corsini in Rome and published by Henry Hill in "Rococo furniture in Italy" published by Electa in 2003 on page 140.

Style: Barocchetto (1720-1770)

With this term we designate, for what specifically relates to furniture, a part of the production carried out in Italy in the period of time between the Rococo era and the first phase of neoclassicism.
It is characterized by the formal and decorative structure still rigidly adhering to the dictates dear to the Baroque period (hence the term baroque) and to the Louis XIV fashions and yet the new times are captured in the adoption of smaller volumes, more decorative modules. elegant, often directly inspired by French fashion, but always executed with rigorous principles of ornamental symmetry.
The tendency to assimilate formal and volumetric novelties but not to incorporate their ornamental elaboration finds natural explanation in Italy in the fact that in this century the great aristocracy experienced an unstoppable political and economic decline.
If in the previous century there was a great profusion of furnishings destined to adorn newly built homes, to proudly show the power of the client family, in the eighteenth century they rather take care to update the building with only the furniture strictly necessary for the new needs imposed by fashion or functional needs.
The old scenographic apparatus is maintained and the new must not contrast too much.
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Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800

18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Main essence: Linden

It is a soft, whitish and light wood, used in the past for inlay and carving works.

Material:

Carved

Yellow Marble of Siena

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