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Chalice
Living room furniture Casablanca
Cassone of the three dukes
Console
Passalacqua cabinet
Stop
Nicodemus
Lounge chair
Chest of drawers with chinoiserie decoration
Chalice
Living room furniture Casablanca
Cassone of the three dukes
Console
Passalacqua cabinet
Stop
Nicodemus
Lounge chair
Chest of drawers with chinoiserie decoration

Console

Anonymous

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Museum of Furniture and Wooden Sculptures

Museum of Furniture and Wooden Sculptures

Piazza Castello, Milan

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The Consoles, offering a support surface without cluttering the halls, intended for receptions and balls, were very popular furniture in the seventeenth century. This Genoese specimen, richly decorated with a putto sitting on a rock spur, depicted in the act of hiding from a lion, has a whimsical design, which finds comparison with the architectural and scenographic taste of contemporary Genoese palaces. The insertion of the lion has led to the hypothesis of a connection of the piece with the Genoese Brignole Sale family, who renovated the palace and furnishings in the seventeenth century with great effort.
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Title: Console

Author: Anonymous

Date: 17th century

Technique: Gilded wood, marble top

Displayed in: Museum of Furniture and Wooden Sculptures

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