Offered by Antiquités Olivier Alberteau
General antiques dealer in Nantes
Richly carved and gilded wooden console table, the openwork belt decorated with rocailles, cartouches and a stylized shell. It rests on 4 arched, openwork legs, decorated with foliage and on which flower garlands are wound.
The legs are joined by a volute spacer in the center of which emerges from a rocaille cartouche a menacing dragon, its mouth open.
It is topped with a red Languedoc marble top with a double molding.
French work, Paris, circa 1750/1755.
Length: 132 cm.
Height: 87 cm.
Depth: 65.5 cm.
Good condition, very slight accidents.
Our console is influenced by the work of Pierre Contant d'Ivry, who asserts his taste for a return to classicism. This influence is particularly noticeable in the base, which is similar to a console in the style of Contant d'Ivry, presented in Bill Pallot's work, "The Art of Seating in the 18th Century in France", p. 152.
Architect to the king, Pierre Contant d'Ivry (1698-1777) was received at the Academy in 1751 and published his "Works of Architecture" in 1769. Through this work, he asserts a pronounced taste for 17th-century classicism, sometimes interspersed with large rocaille shells.
