Corner console in carved and grey lacquered wood, the belt decorated with a bouquet of flowers and acanthus leaves in a frame of egg-and-dart friezes from which fall garlands of flowers held in place by masks, three sheathed legs decorated with friezes. Work in the style of Giuseppe-Maria BONZANIGO Northern Italy. Neoclassical period circa 1790 H_91 cm ; W_ 94 cm ; D_ 67 cm Pitting and worming, minor accidents, restorations and reinforcement, fractured marble. Expert: Stéphane Pèpe.

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