PROBABLY HOHENLOHE, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GERMAN GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES
PROBABLY HOHENLOHE, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with a later shaped simulated pink-veined brown marble top above a waved frieze carved with rocaille and foliate scrolls on pounced zoomorphic ground, the front-rail centred by a stylised lappeted shell, on monopodia headed by shells and terminating in hoof feet
29 ½ in. (75 cm.) high; 30 ¼ in. (77 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Provenance

Christie's, London, 13 June 2002, lot 258, where acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

With their distinctive foliate and rockwork carving and high-hipped zoomorphic legs, these consoles are closely related to a group of giltwood consoles formerly in the collection of the Princes of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, sold at Sotheby's Amsterdam, 16-17 October 2001, lots 272-273 and lot 276. They were probably executed in one of the main South-West German cabinet-making centres, possibly in Hohenlohe itself, however a convincing link to documented pieces from that region has not yet been made.

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