Console table (one of a pair)

French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 631

These side tables have richly carved supports, pierced throughout with asymmetrical shell-forms and cartouches, floral garlands, foliage, and birds and are a wonderful expression of the Rococo style. Such tables were the work of carpenters or menuisiers who were primarily involved with preparing building timbers. The decorative carvings were completed by highly-skilled carvers – neither of the craftsman signed their work and their identity remains unknown.

Console table (one of a pair), Pine: carved and gilded; brocatello marble, French

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