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A NORTH EUROPEAN MARBLE-TOPPED CREAM-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE
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A NORTH EUROPEAN MARBLE-TOPPED CREAM-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE

19TH CENTURY AND LATER, IN THE MANNER OF DELAFOSSE

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A NORTH EUROPEAN MARBLE-TOPPED CREAM-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE
19TH CENTURY AND LATER, IN THE MANNER OF DELAFOSSE
The frieze hung with a ribbon-tied oval facing left of the Emperor Napoleon on ram's head headed inswept foliate scrolled supports centred by a flaming urn finial, restorations
29in. (74cm.) high; 39in. (99cm.) wide; 20in. (51cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The marble-topped table is conceived in the 1760s antique manner evoking lyric poetry and sacrifices at love's altar. The garlanded medallion of a laurel-crowned poet is ribbon-tied to its flowered 'altar-tripod' frame, while bacchic ram-heads embellish the laurelled and Grecian-fretted volutes of its hollowed pilasters, whose stretcher-tray bears an altar-column with a laurelled urn. Similar 'gout Grec' pilasters feature on a garlanded tripod designed in the mid-1760s by the architect Jean-Charles Delafosse (d. 1789), author of Nouvelle Iconologie Historique, 1768. (S. Eriksen, Early Neo-classicism in France, London, 1974, fig. 439).

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