Consoles

An Unusual “Specimen Petra Dura” Marble Top Table
19th Century

Resting on Very Rare Shell form Support Bases
Possibly Florence, Italy

Height 31 in. Width 61 in. Depth 33 ½ in.

Inventory Number: Tab342
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A Neoclassical Style Painted Wrought-Iron Console with Slate Top
20th Century

Height 40 inches, width 53 inches, depth 13 inches

Inventory Number: Con352
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A Fine George III Cream Painted & Parcel-Gilt Console Table with Inset Marble Top.
18th Century

Height 34 1/2 in. Width 59 1/2 in. Depth 21 3/4 in.

Inventory Number: Con346
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A Fine Pair of Louis XV Giltwood Consoles
18th Century

Each with variegated ivory, gray, and rose shaped marble top, over a conforming carved and gilt stand with deeply shaped pierced skirt, on scrolled legs with stretchers.

Height 31 ¼ in. Width 34 ¼ in. Depth 18 ¼ in.

Inventory Number: Con351
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A Louis XVI Giltwood Console
18th Century

With a variegated marble top, over a relief decorated frieze with carved rosettes, above applied leaf carved swags, fluted legs with stretcher base.

Height 34 ½ in. Width 42 in. Depth 22 in.

Inventory Number: Con350
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A Louis XVI Giltwood Console
18th Century

With variegated gray marble top, over a pierced skirt centering a floral basket, over bellflower swags, on fluted legs.

Height 35 in. Width 42 in. Depth 21 ½ in.

Inventory Number: Con349
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A Spanish Baroque Walnut Table
18th Century

The top extending over a carved three-drawer frieze with stylized vine motif, on turned columnar legs joined by a lower stretcher.

Height 32 in. Width 66 in. Depth 31 in.

Inventory Number: Tab334
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A Fine Louis XVI Brass Mounted Ebony & Acajou Mouchete Game Table/Table de Brelan by Godefroy Dester
18th Century

Stamped Godefroy Dester

Godefroy Dester maitre 1774

Height 30 in.  Width 43 in.  Depth 21 ½ in.

Diameter when open 43 in.

This ebeniste was active until at least 1790. working in the rue du Faubourg-Saint – Antoine. His work, which is very distinctive, usually takes the form of light pieces of furniture, tables and bonhcurs-du-jour with marquetry in a loz­enge pattern, the centres decorated. The woods used, satinwood, and stained maplewood, create a harmonious blend of pale-gold and green. The shapes are simple and the decorative use of gilt- bronze mounts is restrained. Godefroy Dester also made a number of pieces in mahogany as well, close in style to the work of Weisweiler and Benneman. The mounts are very sober, the distinction resting largely in the beauty of the woods. The only recorded piece of elaborate furniture by Dester is a commode formerly in the Collection of the Earl of Plymouth. In this, highly ornate gilt-bronze mounts are combined with plaques of Paris porcelain. This commode formed one of a pair bought by the Comte d’Artois in 1785 from the marchand-miroitier Delaroue, established at 4 rue de Verrerie at the sign ‘A la Toilette Royale’. They adorned the bedroom of the prince at the Palais du Temple. Paris, and were designed for his toilette; for this purpose they were fitted with boxes lined in blue chamois to hold toilet utensils. It seems that Delaroue was seeking to emulate the porcelain-mounted pieces in which Daguerre specialized.

Commode stamped Dester, decorated with Haris porcelain plaques It he largest

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jean-Jacques Gautier: Le Garde Mcublc’ in: La Folie

d’Artois. 1988. p. 115
Bonheur-du-jour stamped Dester, с. 1780. (Archives Galeric Perrin. Paris)

Reference:
Le Mobilier Francais Du XVIII Siecle
By Denise Ledoux-Lebard

Height 30 in. Width 43 in. Depth 21 ½ in. Diameter when open 43 in.

Inventory Number: Tab207
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A Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze Mounted Tulipwood Marquetry Console Desserte
18th Century

The D-shaped gray marble top with three-quarter pierced gallery, above a frieze drawer inlaid with vines of flowers flanked by hinged doors, raised on circular legs joined by a conforming platform stretcher with similar inlay.

Height 31 1/2 in. Width 36 1/2 in. Depth 17 1/2 in.

Inventory Number: Con348
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A Fine Pair of Small Louis XVI Carved Giltwood Console Tables
18th Century

Each with a D-shape white Carrara marble top,  above the guilloche-carved frieze, one centered by a woven basket flanked by fruit, the other with a sheaf of arrows.  Both above laurel swags, raised on incurved square tapered legs, ending on square tapered feet.

Height 32 in. Width 17 in. Depth 12 1/2 in.

Inventory Number: Con347
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