A fine Louis XIV style carved giltwood and brèche violette marble top center table Paris, circa 1890

See De Ricci, Seymour, Louis XIV et Régence, Librairie Grund, Paris, 1929, p. 72 and Pallot G.B., Bill, Furniture collection in the Louvre, Ed. Faton, Paris, 1993, pp. 36-39 for illustrations and a discussion on the original model

With its original thick and molded marble top bearing the usual minor scratches and chips to edges consistent with age. There seems to be one repair to one angle showing filler. Chips around each corner. As visible in the catalogue illustration, the giltwood base with wear to gilded high relief showing red underglaze and gesso. This table is impressively well carved and detailed. Extensive wear to stretcher consistent with foot rubbing.
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The present console is almost identical to the 18^th century model made by the sculptor Jules Degoullons for the Château de Bercy in 1713.  With his associates, André and Mathieu Legoupil, Marin Bellan and Pierre Taupin, Degoullons was responsible for much of the carved paneling and carved furniture supplied to Charles-Henri II de Malon de Bercy, between 1712 and 1714. The table was purchased at the auction of the contents of Câteau de Bercy between July 15 and 18, 1860 by Napoleon III and placed in the national collection.  François Linke reproduced this model between 1905 and 1910.  One Linke model from the collection of Elias Meyer at 16 Grosvenor square in London, illustrated in C. Payne, Linke, p. 244-5, and sold Christie's New York, May 24, 1993, lot 338.