拍品专文
A side table with related heavily scrolling legs terminating in goat's hoof feet and a frieze centred by a mask, which appears to be a forerunner to this table, is in the Pinacoteca, Parma (G. Cirillo and G. Godi, Il Mobile a Parma fra Barocco e Romanticismo 1600-1860, Parma, 1983, p. 80, fig. 177). It is interesting to note that it shares the principal features of this table, including the foliate-wrapped legs, the restrained central foliate spray on the x-shaped stretcher and the slightly hair-covered hoofs, on the table in the Pinacoteca, although in a much more hesitant fashion. A centre table, conceived to hold an earlier pietra dura marble top, again displays the deeply scrolling, foliate-wrapped legs which terminate in goat's hoof feet and is also centred by a mask (op. cit., p. 180, fig. 482). This latter table is attributed to the carver Ignazio Marchetti (1715-1800), director of the Ducal workshops in Parma, on the basis of those features which are also present on this lot. Marchetti is recorded as having carved console tables for the court in 1769 and in 1794.