A Late 18thC Italian Faux Marble & Polychrome Painted Neoclassical Console Table c.1790 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The morocco leather writing-surface hides

The morocco leather writing-surface hides the two internal compartments for storing stationery

Later versions were a type of wheelchair which is pushed by an attendant rather than pulled by an animal

but may take the form of a cartouche in Rococo settings for example

His representation seems to have evolved in the course of the centuries

Ernst Schotte & Co of Berlin were publishing plaster relief maps in 1876 over in Germany

A Late 18thC Italian Faux Marble & Polychrome Painted Neoclassical Console Table c.1790 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The morocco leather writing-surface hidesOrigin: ItalianPeriod: NeoclassicalProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1790Height: 34. 5Width: 51. 5Depth: 26The very decorative painted console table in a pistachio green blue, fashioned in the French Louis XVI style of the period with gilt wood frieze of carved garlands with masks under a gadrooned frieze, surmounting four circular reeded and tapering legs with stiff acanthus leaf terminals, united by a low x framed stretcher centring a carved urn , the top