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Baroque Console
Lombardy Early 18th Century
Baroque console table in basswood, Lombardy Early 18th century. Marbled molded top, shaped under-top band and uprights, connecting crosspieces. The richly carved console table has reserves, phytomorphic and floral decorations, leafy and “C”-shaped volutes, curls and frets; in the upper part of the uprights mirrored leafy volutes support lambrequins. In the center of the underside band we find a basket containing flowers and plant branches, while just below, in the center of the transom, is a basket containing a fruit and leaves, set within an architecture of volutes with crowned cyma. Replaced top, restorations. This console table is a fine example testifying to the influence of French taste on Lombard Baroque.