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Lot Essay
These elegant consoles, with their acanthus-headed triple-volute supports, are loosely based on the celebrated design by Richard de Lalonde for a console at Montreuil, now in the Kunstbibliothek, Berlin (for a pair of Louis XVI consoles based on this design, see Christie's, London, 12 December 2002, lot 30).
The use of delicate, pierced scrolling supports, in combination with small-scale classical masks, is typical of the work of Genoese carvers. A Genoese console in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with similar pierced scrolling supports, is illustrated in A. Gonzaléz-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genoa, 1996, p. 311, fig. 364.
The use of delicate, pierced scrolling supports, in combination with small-scale classical masks, is typical of the work of Genoese carvers. A Genoese console in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with similar pierced scrolling supports, is illustrated in A. Gonzaléz-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genoa, 1996, p. 311, fig. 364.