Neo-Renaissance Style Walnut Coffee Table, 19th Century

Description

Small coffee table in scalloped solid walnut.
It rests on 4 turned and sculpted legs connected by an X-shaped spacer … more Small coffee table in scalloped solid walnut.
It rests on 4 turned and sculpted legs connected by an X-shaped spacer also sculpted with acanthus leaves and winged Putti.

This very beautiful achievement, a unique piece that is part of a complete living room, was made in Italy, in the Piedmont region, whose multiple localities still offer testimony to the past. History has marked this rich region where we find in each place, traces of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance or the Counter-Reformation.

Period: Second half of the 19th century
Style: Neo-Renaissance
Dimensions: Height: 78cm x Width: 86cm x Depth: 66cm

Richly carved, by hand, with winged Putti, dotted with lush vegetation, this wood wanted dark in its time to promote the development of the neo-Renaissance style offers us, today, all the light and the baring with ease , in the smallest intersites, thanks to the aerogumming desired for our restoration, thus deploying before our eyes the architectural richness of the furniture, iconographic richness of the Mannerist furniture which perfectly suited the taste of the Second Empire. less