Lot Essay
The bold Transitional form of this console table combines elements from various designs by Jean-Charles Delafosse in his Receuil de Meubles, 1768
Various Properties
A TRANSITIONAL GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE in the manner of Delafosse, with waved D-shaped brocatelle marble top, the frieze carved with lambrequins filled with husks and sunflowers above acanthus-scrolls and volutes centred by a ribbon-tied laurel swag supported by volutes, the moulded tapering shaft headed by a sunflower above flower-filled guilloche, with stepped plinth base headed by acanthus-scrolls, re-decorated, repair to marble
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A TRANSITIONAL GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE in the manner of Delafosse, with waved D-shaped brocatelle marble top, the frieze carved with lambrequins filled with husks and sunflowers above acanthus-scrolls and volutes centred by a ribbon-tied laurel swag supported by volutes, the moulded tapering shaft headed by a sunflower above flower-filled guilloche, with stepped plinth base headed by acanthus-scrolls, re-decorated, repair to marble
35¾in.(91cm.)wide; 36¼in.(92cm.)high; 16¼in.(41.5cm.)deep
35¾in.(91cm.)wide; 36¼in.(92cm.)high; 16¼in.(41.5cm.)deep