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Lot Essay
With its dragon-headed and double scrolling legs, this console bears close resemblance to a design by the sculptor and designer Nicolas Pineau (1684-1754) from his Nouveaux desseins de Pieds de table, de Vases et de Consoles, de sculpture en bois, inv. par le Sr. Pineau, which was published by Mariette in Paris circa 1734 (P. Verlet, Les Ébénistes du XVIIIe Siècle Français, Paris, 1963. p. 54, fig. 11).
Pineau played a significant role in refining the genre pittoresque or rococo style as it developed in the 1730s and 1740s and his published designs were immediately copied by a number of English and German designers, such as the brothers Thomas and Batty Langley, whose ... City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs of 1739 included various furniture designs taken from Pineau's oeuvre (A. Coleridge in Partridge, Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1987, pp. 53-55 and S. Lambert (ed.), Pattern and Design, London, 1983, p. 55, figs. 2.2.f and 2.2.g).
Pineau played a significant role in refining the genre pittoresque or rococo style as it developed in the 1730s and 1740s and his published designs were immediately copied by a number of English and German designers, such as the brothers Thomas and Batty Langley, whose ... City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs of 1739 included various furniture designs taken from Pineau's oeuvre (A. Coleridge in Partridge, Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1987, pp. 53-55 and S. Lambert (ed.), Pattern and Design, London, 1983, p. 55, figs. 2.2.f and 2.2.g).