Furniture, Clocks & Works of Art
Furniture, Clocks & Works of Art
Property from an English Private Collection
A Louis XV carved giltwood console table, circa 1745
Lot Closed
May 18, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an English Private Collection
A Louis XV carved giltwood console table
circa 1745
with a serpentine veined grey and white marble top above a pierced frieze carved with scrolls, foliage and rocaille on cabriole legs joined by an x-form stretcher centred by a c-scroll pierced cartouche issuing an acanthus spray, the whole entwined with laurel leaves; regilt; reblocked
88cm. high, 176cm. wide, 76cm. deep; 2ft. 10 5/8 in., 5ft. 9 1/4 in., 2ft. 5 7/8 in.
Sotheby's, Monaco, Collection Florence J. Gould, 26 July 1984, lot 608.
Christie's, Monaco, Collection Akram Ojjeh, 11-12 December 1999, lot 43.
Sotheby's, London, The Gustav Leonhardt Collection, 29 April 2014, lot 548;
where acquired by the current owner.
Christie's, Monaco, Collection Akram Ojjeh, 11-12 December 1999, lot 43.
Sotheby's, London, The Gustav Leonhardt Collection, 29 April 2014, lot 548;
where acquired by the current owner.
The present console table, which counts amongst its past owners three celebrated collectors, is finely carved with acanthus decoration on the frieze centred within a c-scroll cartouche on cabriole legs entwined by foliate trails with an x-form stretcher centred by a c-scroll cartouche with foliage issuing out of the centre, and it is emblematic of the French rococo style circa 1745 which Bill Pallot terms as 'symmetrical rococo.' In The Art of the Chair in Eighteenth-Century (Paris, 1989, p.135), Pallot illustrates a design for three similar console tables by the architect Pierre-Noël Rousset for the carver Guillaume Dupré (fig.1).
A similar console table, although slightly smaller was offered at Sotheby's, New York, 13-14 April 2016, lot 271.
A similar console table, although slightly smaller was offered at Sotheby's, New York, 13-14 April 2016, lot 271.