CIRCA 1735, POSSIBLY BY FRANÇOIS ROUMIER

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES
CIRCA 1735, POSSIBLY BY FRANÇOIS ROUMIER
Each with a later serpentine moulded breche d'alep marble top above a pierced frieze exuberantly carved with rocaille, C-scrolls, flowers sprays and scrolling foliage centred by a stylised scallopshell, with conformingly-carved slightly concaved sides, on shell-headed double-scrolled legs carved with winged dolphins issuing trailing flowerheads joined by a pierced stretched carved with dragon-headed scrolls and centred by a further dolphin; regilt
36 in. (92 cm.) high; 71 in. (180 cm.) wide; 24 ½ in. (62 cm.) deep

來源

Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818-1874), Mentmore, Buckinghamshire
Thence by descent to his daughter Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery (1851-1890) and son-in-law Archibald Philip Primrose, the 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), where they were in the Green Drawing Room at Mentmore, photographed in situ, circa 1871 (Private family album).
Sold on behalf of the Executors of the 6th Earl of Rosebery and his family, Sotheby's, Parke Bernet & Co at Mentmore Buckinghamshire, Mentmore Vol. I, 18th May 1977, lot 21, illustrated p. 19.
With Partridge Fine Arts, London, circa 2004.
Anonymous Sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2010, lot 15.

出版

Recorded in an undated privately printed bound volume of around 1876, where they were previously thought to be Italian, as follows:
65. A pair of Venetian pier-tables, gilt and boldly carved with dolphins, flowers, and scrolls, surmounted by slabs of marble with moulded veined white marble borders.
Recorded in the 'The Mentmore Catalogue', compiled by Hannah, Countess of Rosebery, and published by R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh in 1883 and again in two illustrated volumes in 1884, listed in the Green Drawing Room in Vol. I, p. 72:
32. Console table of wood carved and gilt; Vert morin marble slab. Workmanship Italian; Period Louis XV of France.
33. Companion console table.
Partridge Fine Art PLC, Catalogue of Furniture, Silver and Wworks of Art, 2004, pp. 114-115, illustrated.

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拍品專文

These exuberantly carved console tables, with bold double-scrolled legs joined by a pierced stretcher integrating winged dolphins, closely relate to the oeuvre of François Roumier (1701-1748). Appointed sculpteur ordinaire du roi in 1721, Roumier was famous for this type of furniture and published a number of books such as the Livre de plusieurs Desseins de Pieds de Tables en Consoles, which was published after his death in 1750. Working for most of the royal residences, Roumier’s masterwork is a magnificent carved table supplied in 1737 for the cabinet doré in Louis XV’s private apartments in Versailles (VMB 1034.3). A closely related pair of giltwood consoles by Roumier, dated to around 1740, are now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1972.284.5 and 1972.284.4). Like the consoles here offered, the supports of the Metropolitan pair take the form of double C-scrolls, and are carved with four dragons - two flanking the central pierced apron cartouche and two others on the feet - similar to the one's found to the stretcher of the present pair. The distinctive feature of the winged dolphins, emblematic of the Dauphin, the title given to the heir apparent to the throne of France, suggest the present consoles were part of an important and perhaps even royal commission. Executed circa 1735, they would have been executed in the years shortly after the birth of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczyńska, who was born in 1729. A related pair of consoles, carved with the same winged dolphins to the upper supports and central stretcher, were offered at Sotheby's, London, 19 April 2012, lot 22.

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