CIRCA 1785

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY CONSOLES A ENCOIGNURE
CIRCA 1785
Each with moulded rouge griotte marble top above a bow-fronted panelled frieze mounted with alternating flutes and berried chandelles, flanked by foliate rosettes, the tapering panelled body terminating in an acanthus clasp with cone finial, one marble incised 1, one inscribed in red chalk 2 and 16
18¼ in. (46 cm.) high; 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) wide (2)

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Lot Essay

These consoles d'encoignure reflect the influence of the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre, who specialised in supplying objets de luxe to the French Court and, after the Revolution, particularly to the English nobility. This same distinctive frieze mount also features on the pair of consoles-desserte by Claude-Charles Saunier, supplied by Daguerre to Earl Spencer for Spencer House, London. Now at Althorp, they were described in Daguerre's invoice of 31 May 1791 as:- 'Deux Consoles en Bois d'acajou avec tablettes de marbre entre les Pieds, garni de frisse mouleur et autres Bronzes dor d'or moulu, les Dessus en marbre Blanc 960 ...1,920 livres' (F.J.B. Watson, Louis XVI Furniture, London, 1960, no.145, pp.134-5, fig.145).

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