AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE CONSOLE TABLE

This marble-topped console-table, with Ionic pilasters fronted by acanthus-wrapped and voluted trusses, relates in form to tables delivered in 1810 to the Petit Trianon by the ébéniste Pierre Benoît Marcion (illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Petit Trianon, Paris, 1989, p.96). Embellished in the early 19th Century 'antique' manner with Grecian palmflowers and inverted 'acrotia' feet in the manner of Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine's Recueil des Décorations Intérieures of 1801, its 'Erechtheum' frieze is enriched with Medusa-masks and Isis-stars, and the voluted trusses enclose Apollo masks.