Console; Italy, first half of the 18th century.

Console; Italy, first half of the eighteenth century.
Carved and corleada wood.
It presents faults and the marble is from a later period (XX century).
Measurements: 86 x 110 x 57 cm.
The four legs of the console table have a light cabriole shape, a front carved with scrolls and vegetal elements, and are joined at the bottom by chambranas also decorated with classicist-inspired leaves, which are joined in a central form. The waist of the small table has two curved areas towards the ends and an openwork front with the same type of antique-inspired decoration. The top board follows the lines of the furniture: curved front corners, and a small overhang to the front. As it is designed to be attached to the wall, as a side table on which to place valuable decorative objects, the back is not worked or gilded, and the marble top also has simpler lines here.
It is clearly inspired by decorative elements taken either from the Renaissance or from classical antiquity (more Imperial Rome than Greece), as is usual in the works that fall within the Neoclassicism. However, the movement of the upper panel, the openwork decoration on the front, the light cabriole legs and the abundance of decoration and gilding on this piece of furniture are also related to a survival of the forms of another 18th century style: Rococo.