A REGENCE GILDED-OAK CONSOLE TABLE

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 157-171)

细节

A REGENCE GILDED-OAK CONSOLE TABLE
The associated rounded rectangular verde antico marble top with moulded brass edge, the panelled frieze with hatched ground and central apron with a maiden's-mask with husk-trail swags on a trellis ground flanked by pierced strapwork and acanthus foliage, the sides with strapwork and centred by a flowerhead, on square baluster legs with an acanthus capital and panelled sides joined by a waved X-shaped stretcher with panelled reeded sides and scrolling acanthus centred by a flowerhead-filled panelled block, on upturned acanthus feet, adapted from a larger ungilded table
54¾ in. (139 cm.) wide; 31 in. (78.5 cm.) high; 26 in. (66.5 cm.) deep

拍品专文

First introduced a little after 1680, such pier-tables were used by Louis XIV to display the sumptuous and rare princely marble slabs imported from Italy and later also quarried in France. With its distinctive scrolled stretchers and truss-supported legs, this pier-table reflects the influence of the dessinateurs du Roi Antoine and Pierre Le Pautre, such as featured in the latter's Livre de Tables qui sont dans les appartements du Roy sur lesquelles sont posée des bijoux du cabinet des médailles, published in Paris in 1710. A related table is conserved in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Lyon (salle 13), while another was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 6 December 1979, lot 136.