THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A Dutch giltwood console table with mirror
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The divided plate within a moulded frame decorated with C-scrolls and flowerheads, surmounted by a C-scroll cresting, the console table with moulded, serpentine-fronted Petit Granite Belge marble top above a pierced frame interlaced with scrolling floral foliage, on cabriole legs with scroll feet, joined by a pierced C-scroll stretcher
The mirror 235 cm. high x 70 cm. wide, the console table 74 cm. high x 68 cm. wide x 45 cm. deep (2)

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Lot Essay

This giltwood pier glass or damspiegel with conforming console table, originally placed between a pair of windows and embellished with sharp C-scroll and foliate carving, represents the decorative vocabulary of the Dutch rococo. A design of a related mirror is illustrated in R. Baarsen et.al., Rococo in Nederland, Amsterdam n.d. p. 21. A related overmantel mirror, decorated in a similar vein, which is still in the regentenkamer of the Fundatie van Renswoude in Utrecht, is illustrated in R. Baarsen et.al., Rococo in Nederland, 'Een rococo interieur: de regentenkamer van de Fundatie van Renswoude', Amsterdam, n.d. p. 39.

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