A FRENCH LOUIS XVI MAHOGANY AND ORMOLU MOUNTED CONSOLE DESSERTE

A FRENCH LOUIS XVI MAHOGANY AND ORMOLU MOUNTED CONSOLE DESSERTE

IN THE MANNER OF ADAM WEISWEILER, LATE 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

with a breche violette breakfront marble top with a moulded edge, above three frieze drawers with concealed button mechanisms and with applied scrolling leaf and rosette rinceaux mounts, centred with a classical mask and a basket of fruit and flowers, supported on fluted Doric columns, the galleried undertier inset with conforming marble, on toupie feet, possibly re-mounted

87cm high, 227.5cm wide, 61.7cm deep

Provenance

Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) the Grand Staircase, Halton House, Buckinghamshire

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)

The Trustees of Exbury House

Catalogue Note

This console desserte was produced during the final years of the 'Ancien Régime', at a time when furniture designed specifically for the dining room was still relatively new in France. This was partly influenced by the Anglomana fashion for all things English that developed following the historic Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1786. This in turn also contributed to the increasing popularity of mahogany as a primary wood in French furniture construction.