A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
The later shaped rectangular variegated green and red marble top, above a moulded frieze with pierced scrolling foliage flanked by paterae, on fluted scroll-supports headed by floral husks, joined by an incurved stretcher, with paper label 'Kgl. Schloss Herrenhausen, Möbelhaus [...] Console, Zimmer Nr., Inv. Nr. 568', replaced sections to carving of frieze, gilding rubbed
35¾ in. (91 cm.) high; 51½ in. (131 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The console bears the inventry label of the now vanished Schloss Herrenhausen near Hannover, one of the former summer residences of the kings of Hannover. Originally being built in 1638 the palace was redesigned in the neo-classical style by Georg Ludwig Laves in 1819/20.
The design of the supports of the console, especially of the voluptuous scrolls and richly carved foliage, relates closely to one stamped by George Jacob, that was probably made in 1785 for the comte de Provence, brother of Louis XVI (sold from the Gutzwiller Collection, Sotheby's Monaco, 1 July 1995, lot 31). Another similar console, attributed to Jacob, was sold at Christie's New York, 31 March 2000, lot 322.

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