A PAIR OF FLORENTINE CONSOLES, CIRCA 1820-1830 PAIR OF CONSOLES, FLORENCE, CIRCA 1820-1830 carved and gilded wood with rectangular tops in black granite, curved band carved with organ pipe motifs; front supports carved in the form of a lion's head on a paw, rear supports with fluted panel, ebonized wood platform base with frame decorated with gilded leaves the model appears to have been derived from some designs for furniture attributed to Giovanni Poggi, later made by Giuseppe Colzi, Ranieri Baldi and Lorenzo Ristori, and now housed in the Royal Apartments in the Pitti Palace; 87.5x103x57 cm Comparative literature E. Colle, Il mobile Impero in Italia. Arredi e decorazioni d'interni dal 1800 e 1843, Milan, 1998, pp. 172-177