Offered by Laurent Chalvignac
This is a Regency-era console table with an upper section consisting of a carved oak entablature decorated in the center with a mascaron adorned with a grotesque figure reminiscent of Bacchus, inscribed in foliage scrolls, supported by four curved legs adorned with a shell at the top and an ornament at the bottom inspired by a fantastical animal, supported by four lion's claws. An “X” strut made of the same carved wood, joined by its four legs by a four-sided terrace carved with a leaf. The piece is beautifully topped with an original double-grooved Sarrancolin marble slab.
This is a Parisian work inspired by the decorations of BOFFRAND and HARDOUIN MANSART for the Place Vendôme in Paris, at the beginning of the Regency period around 1720.
Size in inches : wide 47 X depth 22 X height 34