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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY CONSOLES-A- ENCOIGNURE
Lot 36 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 11, 32 AND 36)

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY CONSOLES-A- ENCOIGNURE

CIRCA 1785

Closed6 December 2012

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY CONSOLES-A- ENCOIGNURE
CIRCA 1785
Each with a moulded rouge griotte marble top above a bow-fronted panelled frieze mounted with alternating flutes and berried chandelles, flanked by foliate rosettes, the tapering body terminating in an acanthus clasp with cone finial, one marble incised 1, one inscribed in red chalk 2 and 16
18¼ in. (46 cm.) high; 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) wide (2)

Champalimaud Collection, Christie's, London, 6-7 July 2005, lot 146, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

These consoles d'encoignure reflect the influence of the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre, who specialised in supplying objets de luxe to the French Court and, after the Revolution, to the English nobility. This same distinctive frieze mount also features on the pair of console-désserte by Claude-Charles Saunier, supplied by Daguerre to Earl Spencer for Spencer House, London. Now at Althorp, they were described in Daguerre's invoice of 31 May 1791 as:- 'Deux Consoles en Bois d'acajou avec tablettes de marbre entre les Pieds, garni de frisse mouleur et autres Bronzes dor d'or moulu, les Dessus en marbre Blanc 960 ...1,920 livres' (F.J.B. Watson, Louis XVI Furniture, London, 1960, no.145, pp.134-5, fig.145).