Lot 41
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A GERMAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE
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A GERMAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE

SECOND QUARTER 18-CENTURY, POSSIBLY ANSBACH

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A GERMAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE
Second quarter 18-Century, possibly Ansbach
The later foliate rim above a waved frieze carved with massive C-scrolls and entrelac on a trellis-carved ground, on scaled cabriole legs headed by a female mask, joined by a pierced scrolling stretcher centered by a lambrequin, on paw feet, lacking marble top, teh gilding largely original
35 in. (89 cm.) high; 40 in. (101.5 cm.); 23 in. (58 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

Several carved elements of this console, such as the lambrequin stretcher and the maiden-headed scrolling legs, but particularly the entrelac frieze, are closely related to the decorative vocabulary of a number of giltwood and (now) white-painted consoles at the Residenz in Ansbach, which were supplied to Markgraf Carl-Wilhelm-Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach (1712-1757) between circa 1728 and 1740. (C. von Pfeil, Die Möbel der Residenz Ansbach, Munich, 1999, nrs. 14, 47 and 49)

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