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Console table
after Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1769
This console table is the only piece of furniture known with certainty to have been designed by Piranesi. With its bizarre legs shaped like imaginary winged animals, this table is an example of Piranesi’s idiosyncratic, highly personal contribution to the development of a new classicizing style. It was made, along with a second matching table, for the Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Rezzonico.
- Artwork typefurniture, wandtafel
- Object numberBK-1971-14
- Dimensionsheight 91.5 cm x width 142 cm x depth 69.5 cm, width 142 cm x depth 69.5 cm
- Physical characteristicsverguld lindehout, met vernieuwd blad van gemarmerd hout