LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A dutch carved pine console table
LATE 17TH CENTURY
The serpentine-fronted moulded top above a carved frieze with shaped and pierced apron centred by a female mask, flanked by two birds and foliate scrolls, the S-shaped supports headed by a crown issuing three ostrich feathers joined by waved X-shaped stretchers with a lambrequined finial
86 cm. high x 157 cm. wide x 64 cm. deep

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Lot Essay

The decoration of this console table, especially the carved and pierced apron with the female mask, relates to designs for pier tables designed by Daniël Marot wich were printed in his Oeuvres du Sr. D. Marot, architecte de Guilliaume III, Roy de la Grande Bretagne, contenant plusieurs, pensies utilles aux architectes, peintres, sculpteurs, orfeures, jardiniers & autres, le tout en faveur de ceux qui s'appliquent aux beaux arts, 1703. Console tables or pier tables were placed between the windows, against the pier of the wall, and usually had an accompaning mirror or pier glass fixed to the wall above them. Apart from their decorative function, they also served to support candelabra which, when their candles were lit, threw their own and reflected light from the mirror above into the room. See also K. Ottenheym et.al., Daniel Marot, vormgever van een deftig bestaan, Zutphen, 1988, p. 45, pl. 77.

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