CONSOLE. WOOD, MARBLE. 18TH CENTURY.
Antiques - Furniture
Reference: ZF1542
Console table. Carved and gilded wood, marble. 18th century. This console table, crafted from carved and gilded wood on the front and sides, features a top panel carved with curves and counter-curves in veined red marble. The legs, finished in straight, hooved shapes, and the waistline of the piece are adorned with carved vegetal motifs clearly influenced by the Rococo style. Note the openwork center on the front, decorated with roses, scrolls, and other designs, and a thin band running along the waistline, just below the tabletop, featuring delicately raised vegetal elements. These types of consoles are often called "side tables" because they are designed to be placed against a wall (hence the lack of gilding and carving on the back). The marble top is reminiscent of the Italian "Rosso antico," but it has enough differences to suggest another type of marble or veined red jasper (Alicante red marble, Rouge Incarnat or Rosso de France or Languedoc, Rosso Verona, etc.) frequently used in the furniture of various European schools in the 18th century, following the rise of interest in the Natural Sciences. Stylistically, both in terms of the waistline and tabletop, as well as the elements of the rest of the piece and the material, it can be linked to 18th-century European works, showing similarities with Spanish, Italian, and, to a lesser extent, French pieces. Compare it with a mid-18th-century console table in the Italian Embassy in Berlin, Germany (national catalog code 1201273839; inventory number 898-899); with a pair attributed to François Rournier (1735-40; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inventory 1972.284.4); etc.
3.000 €
