Lot 313
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A LOUIS XVI STYLE GREY-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE

Details
A LOUIS XVI STYLE GREY-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE
With demi-lune brown and white veined marble top above a beaded frieze carved with trailing foliage on pierced voluted supports ending in addorsed paw feet
37in. (94cm.) high, 39½in. (100cm.) wide, 21in. (53cm.) deep
Provenance
The Collection of Alice Tully, sold in these Rooms, 26 October 1994, lot 174

Lot Essay

This console derives from a design by the décorateur-dessinateur Richard de Lalonde engraved by him circa 1780 and illustrated in Die Französischen Zeichnungen der Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, p. 402, no. 80. A related Louis XVI console in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum is illustrated in C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts, An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p. 62, no. 88.