A Pair of Louis XVI Style Giltwood Console Tables
A Pair of Louis XVI Style Giltwood Console Tables
Dimensions: H: 33 in / 84 cm | W: 45 in / 114 cm | D: 10.5 in / 27 cm
A Pair of Louis XVI Style
Giltwood Console Tables
After the design of Georges Jacob
Each table of carved wood and gilt, with a thumbnail-moulded reverse breakfront carrara marble top above a frieze with entre-lacs relief, on scrolled stop-fluted volute supports carved with foliage and terminating in acanthus, joined by a piastres carved stretcher with laurel twin-handled urn finial, on lions paw feet.
French, circa 1880
With its foliate-carved voluted supports and shaped stretcher surmounted by a Neo-Classical urn, these console tables relates to a distinctive group delivered by Georges Jacob (maître in 1765) to Monsieur, the comte de Provence in 1785. Listed in the Inventory titled Mémoire des ouvrages faits pour le service du Garde-Meuble de Monsieur, frère du Roi sous les ordres de Monsieur de Bard par Jacob, Menuisier en meubles, rue Meslée, le 17 October 1785, these consoles are discussed in H. Lefuel, Georges Jacob Ebéniste du XVIIIème Siècle, Paris 1923, p. 200.
A console by Jacob of similar form was sold from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld, Christie's Monaco, 28-29 April 200, lot 8
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