A PAIR OF GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES, each with rounded rectangular breccia marble top above an egg-and-dart cornice and guilloche frieze, the apron centred by roundels hung with laurel swags, one symbolising astronomy and the other architecture, the sides with berried flowerhead, on scrolled beaded supports carved with overlaid leaf and joined by a concave stretcher centred by an urn with key-pattern handles, on square fluted plinth feet, possibly re-gilt, one with repairs to urn, late 18th Century

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A PAIR OF GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES, each with rounded rectangular breccia marble top above an egg-and-dart cornice and guilloche frieze, the apron centred by roundels hung with laurel swags, one symbolising astronomy and the other architecture, the sides with berried flowerhead, on scrolled beaded supports carved with overlaid leaf and joined by a concave stretcher centred by an urn with key-pattern handles, on square fluted plinth feet, possibly re-gilt, one with repairs to urn, late 18th Century
30¼in. (37cm.) wide; 32½in. (83cm.) high; 17½in. (44.5cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

The tables' form, with husk-festoons, Grecian ribbon-fret and vase-centred console feet with strung-patera enrichments, evolved from the type of petite table de trumeau that recalled an antique tripod and was published in the architect Jean-Francois Neufforge's, Recueil Elementaire d'architecture, vol. 8, 1768, pl. 3. Their poetic laurel-wreathed trophies, emblematic of the Arts and Sciences, relate to symbolic trophies published in the architect Jean-Charles Delafosse's, Nouvelle Iconologie Historique, 1768-71. The 'Arts' are represented here by the Cardinal Art of Architecture with the plan of a Doric facade of a church, together with a Corinthian capital, ruler and set-square; while the 'Sciences' are represented by a telescope, compass, planetary book and a medallion with Apollo's-mask together with a starred diadem, and the Autumnal Zodiac band

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