PROBABLY HOHENLOHE, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF SOUTH GERMAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES
Probably Hohenlohe, mid-18th Century
Each with later shaped wooden top, one green-painted, the other brown-painted, above a waved frieze carved with rockwork and foliate scrolls on pounced zoomorphic ground, the front-rail centred by a stylised lappeted shell, on naturalistic legs headed by a gadrooned shell and terminating in hoof feet, one console with circular label numbered '1714', later blocks, restorations to rails, minor losses to peripherical carving, five feet repaired, refreshments to the gilding
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 29¼ in. (74.5 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53 cm.) deep (2)

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拍品專文

With their distinctive foliate and rockwork carving and high-hipped zoomorphic legs, these consoles are closely related to a group of giltwood consoles formerly in the collection of the Princes of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst at Schloss Schillingsfürst, which were sold at Sotheby's Amsterdam, 16-17 October 2001, lots 272-273 and lot 276. They were probably executed in one of the main South-West German cabinet-making centres, possibly in Hohenlohe itself, however a convincing link to documented pieces from that region has not yet been made.