A Dutch carved giltwood and painted faux marble console table by Wed. C. Dorens en Zoon, Amsterdam, circa 1830

with a mirrored backboard, the pierced sides applied with a lion mask and scrolling foliage with a pierced stylised anthemion on columnar front supports carved with acorns and leaves, the bowed plinth base painted to simulate verde antico marble, with the printed paper label Wed. G. Dorens & Zoon / Te Amsterdam / Hofspielgelkoopers; marble top lacking

This rare console table is in reasonable original condition. There are minor losses and consequent areas of retouching to gilding, and minor marks and scratches consistent with age and use. The left hand side column has some of the gilding cracked, and this has been consolidated. Minor marks of old woodworm which is no longer active on the inside of the right return. The faux marble plinth with marks and scratches consistent with age and use. The mirrored back probably replaced. Very unusual and of lovely quality. With a later white marble top.
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Wed. Dorens en Zoon (act. 1800-1890) are recorded in 1807 at number 38 Warmoesstraat, Amsterdam before moving across the city to Algemeen Handelsblad in 1853. Known as ‘hofspiegelverkoopers’ or purveyors of fine frames and mirrors their most notable commission was supplying frames for the Maurtishuis, The Hague for pictures resituated from the Louvre following Napoleon’s defeat in 1815.