CIRCA 1780, ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE SENE

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
CIRCA 1780, ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE SENE
The bow-fronted moulded Sarancolin marble top above a panelled frieze carved with scrolling foliage and flanked by acanthus, on scrolled stop-fluted downswept supports carved with foliage and terminating in acanthus, joined by a floral entrelac stretcher centred by an eagle-headed lyre and flanked by floral garlands, on paw feet, with paper label numbered '54', '2727' and '413', regilt
39 in. (99 cm.) high; 43 in. (109 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from Maxima, avenue Friedland, Paris, 31 October 1917.

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Lot Essay

With its foliate-carved voluted supports, this console table recalls those delivered by Georges Jacob (maître in 1765) to Monsieur, the comte de Provence in 1785. Listed in the Inventory titled 'Mémoire des ouvrages faits pour le service du Garde-Meuble de Monsieur, frère du Roi sous les ordres de Monsieur de Bard par Jacob, Menuisier en meubles, rue Meslée, le 17 October 1785', these consoles are discussed in H. Lefuel, Georges Jacob Ebéniste du XVIIIème Siècle, Paris 1923, pp.200. The lyre ornament of the stretcher would suggest that the Wildenstein console was originally supplied to a salon de musique.

A console by Jacob of similar form was sold from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld, Christie's Monaco, 28-29 April 200, lot 8 (609,500 FFr.).

Jacob's contemporary Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (maître in 1769) is also known to have supplied consoles of this overall form, such as that sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 25 May 2000, lot 374.

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