CIRCA 1765

This eyecatching console, with its exaggerated volute supports draped with oak leaf garlands beneath a Vitruvian scroll frieze, relates closely to a design for a console by the influential dessinateur Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1791), illustrated in A. Gurinet ed., L'Oeuvre Complte de Delafosse, Paris, n.d., vol. C, fig. 57. A closely related pair of consoles from the collection of Baron de Red was sold Sotheby's Monaco, 25-26 May 1975, lot 275, and again in these Rooms 6 June 1984, lot 133.