CONSOLE TABLE (ONE OF TWO)

Creator(s): Unknown

On view in: Dining Room

About this object

Tables elaborately carved with rococo motifs, such as this one, often matched the paneling of the room for which they were intended. In a reception room they frequently were placed under a mirror, between windows, or opposite a chimneypiece. Menuisiers, the division of the furnituremaking trades that specialized in objects made of solid wood, would have been responsible for carving such tables.

Each table is elaborately carved with rococo scrolls in a variety of forms. In the center of the apron a shell motif flanked by leafy scrolls against a ground covered with a diaper motif. The curved legs are carved with bold, leafy scrolls ending in winged dragons at the top. The two leg slant downward and are joined near the bottom with a shell motif. The richly veined red marble top has a beveled edge with a double-bowed front that is shaped to follow the outline.

Object name:

CONSOLE TABLE (ONE OF TWO)

Made from:

Gilt oak -- marble

Made in:

Paris, France

Date made:

ca. 1730

Size:

32 × 50 3/4 × 24 1/2 in. (81.3 × 128.9 × 62.2 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

31.54

Class:

FURNITURE

Signature marks:

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973