Cassie V&A
Console table
This console table was made in Rome in about 1700 of gilded pine, with a stone composite top veneered in Breccia.
It appears in the V&A exhibition Baroque: Style in the Age of Magnificence.
This kind of table, with a coloured marble top and massive gilded stand, is typical of the exuberant furnishings found in Baroque palaces in Rome. Inspired by the carving of papal thrones and ambassadorial coaches, the style was published and circulated by means of engravings.
V&A Muesum no. W.35-1977
See this object on the V&A Interactive Global Baroque map: www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/baroque/interactive_map.html
Console table
This console table was made in Rome in about 1700 of gilded pine, with a stone composite top veneered in Breccia.
It appears in the V&A exhibition Baroque: Style in the Age of Magnificence.
This kind of table, with a coloured marble top and massive gilded stand, is typical of the exuberant furnishings found in Baroque palaces in Rome. Inspired by the carving of papal thrones and ambassadorial coaches, the style was published and circulated by means of engravings.
V&A Muesum no. W.35-1977
See this object on the V&A Interactive Global Baroque map: www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/baroque/interactive_map.html