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A MATCHED PAIR OF REGENCE GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES
Lot 4 Property of an Estate near Düsseldorf (lots 1-52)

A MATCHED PAIR OF REGENCE GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES

CIRCA 1730, POSSIBLY GERMAN, STUTTGART

Closed2 October 2013

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GBP 18,750

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A MATCHED PAIR OF REGENCE GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES
CIRCA 1730, POSSIBLY GERMAN, STUTTGART
Each with shaped red and grey mottled marble top above a pierced frieze, decorated with C-scrolls, scallop shells and acanthus leafs, on double-scrolled cabriole legs wrapped with dragons, joined by a stretcher surmounted by a rosette, minor differences in carving
31 in. (79 cm.) high x 44 in. (112 cm.) wide x 22 in. (56 cm.) deep; the other 32 in. (81 cm.) high x 44 in. (112 cm.) wide x 22 in. (56 cm.) deep (2)

Specialist note

Although the elaborately-carved C-scrolled pierced legs with dragons and distinctive symmetric rocaille cartouches of the present console tables are undoubtedly incorporating style elements of the French régence period, the overall stylistic approach is under local influence and possibly crafted by French émigrés. These emigrated craftsman worked at the South-German courts in the first half of the eighteenth century, like the architect Philippe de la Guépières for Duke Carl Eugèn von Württemberg (1728-1793) at Schloss Ludwigsburg, nearby Stuttgart.