Console Table

From the Getty Museum record

The form and decoration of this massive table, animated by masks and female heads turning in all directions, display the dynamic style of the Baroque in Rome. Certain aspects, however, point to the transition toward the Rococo, including bits of draped garlands, the broken architectural elements, and the freely handled scrolls. Beneath the top, stretchers boldly curve out from the center to connect the four legs, which turn and twist outwards. Companion pieces are located in an English castle and in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. The three tables must have been part of a larger set of tables that decorated the grand hall of an important Roman palace in the 1700s.