A late 19th century Italian carved and stained wood tripod basin by Vincenzo Cadorin

A late 19th century Italian carved and stained wood tripod basin by Vincenzo Cadorin, the shell bowl with a circular aperture and plaster interior, supported by two mermaids and a merman, united by a triform stretcher shelf on scroll legs to leaf and talon feet, signed 'V. CADORIN : VENEZIA', 36½in (92.6cm) high, 28½in (72.5cm) wide, 26in (66cm) deep.

Vincenzo Cadorin (1854 - 1925) sculptor and eboniste, was trained in the studio of Augusto Benvenuti and then studied at the Venetian Academy. He worked near Dresden in 1886 as cabinet maker for the Queen of Saxony.

See Christopher Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, p.434, pl.1284 for an almost identical table.