Lot 743: A PORTUGUESE PARCEL-GILT AND CREAM-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE AND MIRROR

A PORTUGUESE PARCEL-GILT AND CREAM-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE AND MIRROR >FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY<br>The rectangular plate within a beaded frame applied with floral paterae and trailing husks, headed by an oval medallion painted on oil on canvas centred by a courtly-dressed lady with elderly figures, and surmounted by a plumed finial with floral garlands, the console table with a serpentine fronted brèche d'Alep marble top within a gadrooned surround, above a pierced and beaded frieze carved with foliage and flanked by rosettes, above a rockwork-carved apron, on turned tapering and fluted legs joined by guilloche carved X-shaped stretchers centred by a plumed finial and terminating in foliate-wrapped toupie feet >Mirror: 85½ x 39½ in. (217 x 100 cm.); console: 34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 40¼ in. (102 cm.) wide; 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep<br>