A Venetian Blackamoor console table, 19th century, modelled as a kneeling blackamoor attired in coloured robes, supporting the coloured tabletop with tasseled fringe emulating silk drapery to the frieze, supported on a naturalistic base, with leaf edge, supported on paw feet to the front, block feet to the rear, 85 cm high, 63 cm wide, 36.5 cm deep. Provenance: Dallas Auction Gallery, Texas, 7 April 2010, lot 92