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Lot Essay
These exuberantly carved corner consoles reflect the 'pittoresque' style popularized in the 1730's and 1740's by influential ornemanistes such as Nicolas Pineau and Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, and similar 'Pieds de Table de Trumeau' appear in the latter's Oeuvre of circa 1750.
Their boldness, and large-scale, dominant rocailles also look forward to the designs of the influential architect Contant d'Ivry of the 1750's, which through their greater degree of symmetricality displayed a nascent neo-classicism. A design by Contant d'Ivry for a 'Table-Console' for the Salon of the Palais Royal, circa 1753, features similar bold rocailles and shells (see B. Pallot, L'Art du Siège au XVIIIe Siècle en France, Paris, 1987, p. 159).
Their boldness, and large-scale, dominant rocailles also look forward to the designs of the influential architect Contant d'Ivry of the 1750's, which through their greater degree of symmetricality displayed a nascent neo-classicism. A design by Contant d'Ivry for a 'Table-Console' for the Salon of the Palais Royal, circa 1753, features similar bold rocailles and shells (see B. Pallot, L'Art du Siège au XVIIIe Siècle en France, Paris, 1987, p. 159).