A pair of German Baroque carved giltwood console tables circa 1720, later gilt

J. Kugel, Paris

Marble tops chips, abrasions and some infill. One top with butterfly patch to front edge. Tables with age and construction cracks to the gesso. Some minor chips and abrasions to gesso. Later gilt, gilding with the losses and rubbing. Minor areas with earlier, possibly original, green color visible. In good restored condition.
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The particularly solid and clean construction and the overall shape and execution of the specific design elements point to the German lands as the place of manufacture of the present lot. The way the reverse of the back legs is fully carved and finished and the inclusion of the ball-and-claw feet are further indicators that these tables are Germanic in origin. A single console table of basically the same form and decorated by the famed lacquerer Martin Schnell is now in the collection of the Museum des Kunsthandwerks, Leipzig, and illustrated Heinrich Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Vol. II, Munich, 1970, fig. 42. As indicated by traces of green decoration under the current gilding, the tables offered here were originally polychrome decorated as well.