Lot 33
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A REGENCE GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
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A REGENCE GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE

CIRCA 1720-30

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A REGENCE GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
CIRCA 1720-30
The rectangular Rouge royal marble top with moulded edge, above a pierced frieze with hatched ground centred by a bearded faun's mask and flanked by foliate scrolls and sprays of flowers, the sides centred by a shell, on double-C-scrolled legs carved with foliate lambrequins, trailing husks and foliage, joined by X-shaped stretchers with a lambrquined platform
32 in. (82 cm.) high; 49 in. (125 cm.) wide; 23¾ in. (60 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The table design evolves from the Louis XIV Roman fashion appropriate for a marble sideboard 'buffet', and its frame is embellished with a lozenge-trellised mosaic recalling the coffering of Rome's Temple of Venus. With its distinctive truss-scrolled pilasters and lambrequinned stretchers, 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 shortly after 1689. This work illustrated a series of giltwood consoles used to display the king's magnificent collection of silver.

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