Mid C19th French Carved Gilt-wood Console Table of Serpentine Outline in the C18th Louis Xvi Period Style.

Mid C19th French carved gilt-wood console table of serpentine outline , in the C18th Louis XVI period style.

Raised on shapely carved cabriole-type supports with a geometric carved and pierced frieze centred by a carved leaf motif above, the bottom edge with beaded or ‘split-pearl’ carved decoration . The base joined by a guilloche pattern carved inverted stretcher having a central carved classical urn with snake handles , flanked by carved floral details. The whole on shaped peg feet .

The top of strikingly-figured rare ‘breche violette’ marble having a corresponding serpentine outline together with a moulded edge . This exceptional high quality marble top being 40 mm thick and perhaps originally from an earlier C18th table . The gilded table frame having been constructed in oak .

In excellent original condition with no breaks or repairs .The gilded surface having achieved a pleasing mellow colour and patina .

A highly decorative console table of practical scale and proportions. This elegant yet robust table is designed to be fixed in position to a wall in order to provide stability, especially when considering the need to support the heavy thick marble slab top and has fixing plates to each corner of verso.

H 38”

W 40”

D 17”

France c.1860

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