CIRCA 1740, MINOR VARIATIONS IN DIMENSIONS

This pair of console tables with its sinuously undulating frame and in-scrolled feet relates to a designs by Contant d'Ivry, the premier architecte of the the Duc d'Orléans, of 1755 - 1757 (S. Eriksen, Early Neoclassicism in France, London, 1974, fig. 302), while a console table with very similar incurved feet and pierced legs as well as the in-scrolled shoulder is visible in an 18th century engraving by M.-Q. de La Tour and Ch.-N. Cochin of Paris de Montmartel, Marquis de Brunoy (P. Verlet, The Eighteenth Century in France, Fribourg, 1967, p. 235). In its execution this pair also bears strong resemblance to one with very similar legs and pierced hips sold from the collection of the 6th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, Sotheby's, house sale, 18 - 20 May 1977, lot 102, while another including a very similar central stretcher was in the collection of Rodolphe Kann (Catalogue de la Collection Rodolphe Kann, Paris, 1907, cat. 213).