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A NORTH ITALIAN BAROQUE INLAID MARBLE AND GILTWOOD CENTER TABLE Probably Genoa, the top...

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A NORTH ITALIAN BAROQUE INLAID MARBLE AND GILTWOOD CENTER TABLE Probably Genoa, the top...
A NORTH ITALIAN BAROQUE INLAID MARBLE AND GILTWOOD CENTER TABLE

Probably Genoa, the top late 17th century, the base 19th century The canted rectangular Marmo Di Carrara marble top with a molded edge centered by double flower-heads and foliage in various marbles including Harlequin, Breccia, Violet Jura Brocatelle, Escalettes and Noir Frances, within a broad banding of Brignoles de Violet, the support in the form of three entwined dolphins on a rockwork base 313/4 X 321/2 X 24 IN. (82 X 82.5 X 61 CM)

$18,000-22,000

In Classical times, the dolphin was an attribute of Neptune and of Venus, born of the sea, and symbolized the element of water.

The giltwood base of the present table is inspired by Genoese baroque models composed of dolphins with entwined tails. Two of the most finely carved and exuberant examples exist in the following contexts: a late 18th century base for an octagonal inlaid table top of the second half of the 16th century is in the Quirinale, Rome (Alvar González-Palacois, Il mobili italiani. Milan, 1996, pp. 330-32) and a late 17th-century base and rectangular inlaid top are in the Palazzo del Principe, Genoa (González-Palacois, Il mobile in Liguria. Genoa, 1996, fig. 111). A pair of Genoese standing seven-light candelabra each with a base in the form of a dolphin on rockery is in the Museo Luxoro, Nervi (Andrea Disertori, et al. Il mobile del Settecento. Novara/London, 1988)
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