Lot Essay
A similar console table with female mask on the frieze is at the Musée du Louvre and is illustrated in C. Packer, Paris Furniture, 1956, fig. 16.
Details
A PAIR OF RÉGENCE GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES
Each with serpentine red and grey marble top above a scroll and foliate carved frieze centered by a shell on similarly carved uprights joined by a leaf-carved undertier on square fluted feet headed by term heads (regilt, one of a later date)--32¾in. (83cm.) high, 42in. (107cm.) wide, 20in. (50.8cm.) deep (2)
Each with serpentine red and grey marble top above a scroll and foliate carved frieze centered by a shell on similarly carved uprights joined by a leaf-carved undertier on square fluted feet headed by term heads (regilt, one of a later date)--32¾in. (83cm.) high, 42in. (107cm.) wide, 20in. (50.8cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, 17 March 1990, lot 176