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A French 19th century Régence style carved giltwood console table after the model attributed to Jules Degoullons and his atelier
9 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£12,000 - £18,000
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A French 19th century Régence style carved giltwood console table after the model attributed to Jules Degoullons and his atelier
the serpentine Rance marble top above a pierced frieze decorated with leafy scrolls and centred by a shell flanked by wings, the elaborate scrolling supports terminating in masks and joined by a conforming shell stretcher with mask surmount, on hoof feet, 182cm wide, 70cm deep, 87cm high (71 1/2in wide, 27 1/2in deep, 34in high).
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The present console is a close, if larger, copy of an original model for the Château de Bercy, almost certainly designed and carved circa 1713 by the sculptor Jules Degoullons, and now in the collections of the Louvre (see Bill G. B. Pallot, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Dijon, 1993, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 40-41). The owner of the Château de Bercy, Charles-Henri II de Malon seigneur de Bercy, employed Degoullons and his collaborators to execute much of the interior decorations and furnishings. The Bercy console was acquired by Emperor Napoleon III at the auction of the contents of the château in 1860, and is now in the collections of the Louvre (inv. no. OA 5088).