Pair of marble specimen centre tables
Giocomo Raffaelli
- Art Funded
- 1991
- Dimensions
- 89 x 176 x 68 cm
- Vendor
- Wellington Antiques Ltd
They illustrate the final phase of Grand Tour collecting. The Roman version of the Empire fashion has never appealed widely to British connoisseurs and is therefore only scantily represented in this country. There are few more expressive examples of this style than these tables. Monumentally scaled and polychromatic (thanks to the marbles), they could be represented as the last gasp of the Roman baroque tradition, bold, sculptural and palatial. These works were acquired with assistance from the Wolfson Foundation.
Provenance
Sir Clifford Constable, Yorkshire. Sotheby's 1989.
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Burton Constable Hall
Burton Constable, Skirlaugh, East Yorkshire, HU11 4LN
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