NEOCLASSICAL SIDE TABLE FROM THE PERIOD OF FERDINAND III, KING OF THE TWO SICILIES

1806
Marble, onyx, malachite, bronze
109 x 76 x 45,5 cm (h x w x d)

Starting price
320 000 CZK
   |   12 800 €
Sold
afterauction sale

The side table comprises a classical marble tabletop made of grey coarse-grained marble top set in a molded onyx frame, decorated with malachite in the corners. Multi-colored marble mosaic relief of the royal eagle of Sicily in the center of the tabletop. The stone tabletop is supported by two prism columns of malachite, with stylized capitals and fluted bases of grey marble and bronze lion paw pedestals. The columns stand on a rectangular molded white Greek plinth, the front of which bears an inscription recalling the King of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinand III of the House of Bourbon, and the year 1806 when the king was forced to flee from Napoleon's advancing armies to Sicily.