Literature

- G. Morazzoni, Mobili veneziani laccati, Milan, s.d. [1950s], tav. LXI.
- G. Morazzoni, Il mobile Veneziano del Settecento, vol. II, Milan, 1958, tav. CCCII, from the collection of Giuseppe Gatti-Casazza and exibited at Esposizine del Settecento Italiano in Venice in 1929; and tav. CCCIII.
- G. Lorenzetti and L. Planiscing, La Collezione dei Conti Donà dalle Rose a Venezia, Venice, 1934, tav. LXXXII, fig. 154.

Detail Description

A Venetian tilt-top table in painted and lacquered pine wood with  "Arte Povera" decoration. The shaped moulded oval top centered by a large gallant scene, with a couple sitting in a landscape, the large scene framed by reserves with garlands of flowers and fruits. The table top rests ontoa baluster on top of a shaft terminating in a tripod of painted, s-curved legs decorated with small flowers. At the top of the supporting post, a hinge allows the table top to tilt from horizontally flat to almost vertically upright.