A PAIR OF FRENCH GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES

LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES
LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Of Louis XVI style, each with a bleu turquin demi-lune marble top above an egg-and-dart-carved frieze and on scrolled acathus carved legs flanking two entwined serpents joined by a stretcher and on hoof feet and a further base, one with paper label inscribed 'Seligman' and both marbles and one console with customs stamps, the tops associated
37¼ in. (94.5 cm.) high, 18¼ in. (46.5 cm.) wide, 9½ in. (24 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

[possibly] with Seligmann & Cie., Paris.

Lot Essay

With their entwined serpent supports, these delicately-carved consoles relate to an 18th century pair of consoles almost certainly supplied to the fermier général Randon de Boisset (d. 1776), also with twisted serpent legs, the design attributed to Antoine-Mathieu Le Carpentier, which sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 14 March 1996, lot 170.

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