A German neoclassical carved and parcel-gilt console table, Westphalia circa 1775

the shaped rectangular marble top above a frieze carved with roundels centred by rosettes and ribbon-tied swags, the canted corners with lion masks holding a leaf and grape swag, on fluted tapering legs; redecorated, damages

A. Ludorff, Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen; Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Hörter, Munster, 1914, p. 119, ill. 1

H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Mobels, Munich, 1973, vol. III, ill. 96

This rare console table is in near-distressed but overall solid condition. The marble top with marks and scratches consistent with age and use and the back-right corner broken, with one loss. The painted carved decoration with losses, cracquelure, and chips, most notably to the front and sides frieze, as visible in the catalogue photograph. In need of professional attention.
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This rare console table is related to designs by the architect and exponent of Klassizismus Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper (1733-1800) and his younger brother Clemens (1742-1813). A sketch by the latter is illustrated in H. Kreisel, op. cit., ill. 92. 

It belongs to a suite of furniture probably commissioned for Schloss Thienhausen, or for another of the Haxthausen properties, in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. For one parcel-gilt bed in the castle, see H. Kreisel, op. cit., ill. 95.