SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY, REGILT

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A DUTCH GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY, REGILT
The rectangular Greek antique green marble top with moulded edge on four S-shaped supports carved with dragons and joined by a stretcher decorated with an eagle and flowerheads, the marble top associated, possibly conceived as a cabinet stand
32¼ in. (82 cm.) high; 34 in. (86,5 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

With the impressive carving which covers every part of its base, this table is an interesting example of 'auricular' tables which were highly fashionable in the Netherlands in the second half of the 18th Century. One of these tables, with a stretcher decorated with a mask, is in the Centraal Museum of Utrecht, illustrated in J.R. ter Molen, 'The Auricular Style', in A. Gruber, The History of Decorative Arts, Classicism and the Baroque in Europe, Paris, 1994, p.76. The present lot, with its eagle-carved stretcher, relates to several tables sold from the Schermerhorn Collection, Christie's, Amsterdam, 29 September 1999, lot 508, 520 and 550.

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