A PAIR OF ROMAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLES WITH ORMOLU-BORDERED MOSAIC TOPS Commissioned in 1773 by Principe Don Marcantonio Borghese for the Stanza Terza in the Galleria Terrena of the Palazzo Borghese, the frames carved by Antonio Landucci, the gilding by Nicola Francini, the mosaic tops ancient Roman and reused and restored by Carlo Lecchini and Benedetto Maciucchi, the ormolu borders by Luigi Valadier Each richly carved overall, with rectangular mosaic top with floral garlands and circular medallions within a Greek key border, set within a border of alabastro fiorito a ventresca framed by an ormolu bead-and-reel border, above a rectangular frieze with scrolling foliage, anthemia and flowers framing a central medallion, one depicting a bull, the other a goat, on stop-fluted tapering legs, each headed by a scrolling acanthus capital with ram's-mask and floral garlands above a berried laurel wreath, the lower part with foliated acanthus-clasps, on foliated tapering feet, the X-shaped stretcher with scrolling acanthus and entrelacs, surmounted by a woven basket filled with flowers, grapes and pomegranates on a moulded circular base, flanked by two swans with spread wings, each table with one swan lacking, each table with paper label inscribed in ink 'P. Borghese A [o] No.-' and also inscribed '264' in paint, the other '265', both stenciled 'H', the gilding largely original, some losses to alabaster borders, replacements and losses to swags at top of legs 38¾ in. (98.5 cm.) high; 71 in. (182.5 cm.) wide; 35¾ in. (91 cm.) deep (2)
A PAIR OF ROMAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLES WITH ORMOLU-BORDERED MOSAIC TOPS Commissioned in 1773 by Principe Don Marcantonio Borghese for the Stanza Terza in the Galleria Terrena of the Palazzo Borghese, the frames carved by Antonio Landucci, the gilding by Nicola Francini, the mosaic tops ancient Roman and reused and restored by Carlo Lecchini and Benedetto Maciucchi, the ormolu borders by Luigi Valadier Each richly carved overall, with rectangular mosaic top with floral garlands and circular medallions within a Greek key border, set within a border of alabastro fiorito a ventresca framed by an ormolu bead-and-reel border, above a rectangular frieze with scrolling foliage, anthemia and flowers framing a central medallion, one depicting a bull, the other a goat, on stop-fluted tapering legs, each headed by a scrolling acanthus capital with ram's-mask and floral garlands above a berried laurel wreath, the lower part with foliated acanthus-clasps, on foliated tapering feet, the X-shaped stretcher with scrolling acanthus and entrelacs, surmounted by a woven basket filled with flowers, grapes and pomegranates on a moulded circular base, flanked by two swans with spread wings, each table with one swan lacking, each table with paper label inscribed in ink 'P. Borghese A [o] No.-' and also inscribed '264' in paint, the other '265', both stenciled 'H', the gilding largely original, some losses to alabaster borders, replacements and losses to swags at top of legs 38¾ in. (98.5 cm.) high; 71 in. (182.5 cm.) wide; 35¾ in. (91 cm.) deep (2)
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