Pair of console tables with griffons in ebonized walnut wood, Italy 1860.

Italy, circa 1860.

The pair of console tables is made of walnut wood for the sculpted and carved parts, while the structural parts are made of ebonized fruit wood. The foot has a square plan with an owl’s beak frame at the top and a flat surface. In the center is the support of the griffin, a tripartite volute element completed by a front element. On the back, in the rear edge, rises a column element of rectangular section with a molded frame at the base. The column rises smoothly. From the base rises and protrudes the sculpture of the chimera with spread wings and a long neck and griffin head, on whose head is a sphere, holding up the console top, together with the tips of the wings and the top of the column behind it. Italy, circa 1860.

32,5” – 83 CM H 22,5” – 57 CM L 19” – 48 CM D

REF: M5980