Object Description
A Louis XV Style Console Table
In the Manner of Nicolas Pineau
Carved from solid wood, the console table displaying its original water gilding and highlighting the virtuosity of its carver; the table rising from a scrolling base joined by a rocaille stretcher, the legs headed with female masks, the carved and pierced frieze incorporating musical motifs and floral swags with a centred cartouche of a seated putto; the carved fasces above supporting the serpentine fleur de pêcher marble top.
French, circa 1880