Neoclassical rectangular console in carved and gilded wood - Lot 67

Neoclassical rectangular console in carved and gilded wood . The belt is decorated with a frieze of openwork interlacing and framed with pearls on a blue background, the connecting dice are enriched with rosettes. . The front features a central protrusion adorned with a knotted ribbon and edged with oak leaf garlands that continue below the entablature. The whole is supported by four tapered uprights, fluted and filleted with asparagus, resting on feet adorned with spiral fluting and finished with stoppers. Ribboned onyx top edged with Sienna yellow marble. Northern Italy. Piedmont. 1st Neoclassical period. Circa 1765. H_86 cm W_130 cm D_54 cm. Work in the taste of the sculptor Francesco Bolgiè (1752-1834). This Italian console table from the early Neoclassical period is reminiscent in its ornamental grammar of works produced in Piedmontese workshops. The frieze of openwork interlacing on a blue background, the garlands of oak leaves and the tapered uprights resting on spiral feet terminating in corks are similar to the treatments of the sculptures produced in the workshop of Francesco Bolgié, supplier to the royal and princely residences of Turin, Moncalieri and Stupinigi. Expert : Stéphane Pépe