A LOUIS XV WHITE-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE

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A LOUIS XV WHITE-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE
The later shaped moulded rouge Languedoc arc-en-arbalette marble top above a pierced serpentine frieze centred by foliate C-scrolls framing a shell, flanked by C-scrolls and rockwork with entwined flower garlands, the sides carved conformingly, on scrolling cabriole legs decorated with foliage with rockwork and flower garlands, joined by a ribbon-tied foliate X-shaped stretcher with a central flower-filled shell surrounded by C-scrolls and rockwork, flanked by a quiver and a torch, on reeded bun feet, redecorated
33½ in. (85 cm.) high; 62½ in. (159 cm.) wide; 27½ in. (70 cm.) deep

Provenance

With Jean Wanecq, Paris, 1999.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The garlanded and richly fretted serpentine frame of this console, with flowered and scalloped cartouche, is designed in the Louis XV picturesque manner popularised by engraved table patterns invented by the sculptor Nicholas Pineau (d.1754) and published by J.J. Mariette in L'Architecture Française, 1727-38 and Nouveaux Dessins de Tables et de Vases et Consoles de sculpture en bois, 1734.

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