Giuseppe Zocchi painted also non-figurative subjects, making models for console table tops. The subjects here proposed are the allegories of Air and Water, air being represented by a festoon of flowers and butterflies, and water with a marine wreath of shells, corals and pearls. This charming invention of subjects is in harmony with the formal elegance obtained in the transposition of the model into stone commesso, Florentine mosaic. In the allegory of Air, the butterflies seem almost imprisoned in the transparent jade background. The two consoles, the models of which were made between 1760 and 1765, are today conserved in the Hofburg palace in Vienna and in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
