Cod: 417163

Period: 17th century

Grandiose wall table in carved, sculpted and gilded wood. Top in red Sicilian jasper. Rome, 17th century. cm 90 x 182 x 90 Provenance: Rome, Palazzo Grazioli In this piece of furniture, where various decorative elements blend together, the carving takes on a solemn appearance, and the varying protrusion of the complex sculptural interweaving achieves, together with the carved and engraved ornament, a strongly dynamic chiaroscuro effect. Furniture of such pompous splendor, adorned with masks and female heads, furnished the most important palaces in Rome. The furniture stylistically fits into the last quarter of the seventeenth century and enters into direct relationship with examples in the Sacchetti, Corsini, and Spada collections. Regarding the execution, we can refer to the carver Filippo Passarini, who was the mirror of the ideas of artists strongly influenced by Bernini, such as Ciro Ferri and Giovanni Paolo Schor. The gilding was then entrusted to masters such as Rocco Lolli and Marco Antonio Andrini. These furnishings were often embellished with tops in rare marbles, such as this one that bears a Red Sicilian Jasper.