Object Description
This is a beautiful antique Dutch Empire mahogany and ormolu mounted console table by Pander & Zonen Amsterdam, Circa 1880 in date.
The rectangular ‘petit granit’ marble top marble top over a plain frieze with ormolu mounts, raised on griffin carved supports flanking a mirrored back, raised on a plinth base, with the makers label to the back.
This gorgeous console table will instantly enhance the style of one special room in your home and is sure to receive the maximum amount of attention wherever it is placed.
Condition:
In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned, polished and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 101.5 cm x Width 130 cm x Depth 50 cm
Dimensions in inches:
Height 3 foot, 4 inches x Width 4 foot, 3 inches x Depth 1 foot, 8 inches
H. Pander & Son is a furniture company in the Netherlands
Harmen Pander and his son, Henk, ran the company.
In 1924 H. Pander & Son bought an aircraft manufacturing company and started making small airplanes. Over the next decade, Pander became better known for making airplanes, but appears to have continued to make furniture through the mid 1930s.
Empire style,
is an early-19th-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts followed in Europe and America until around 1830.
The style originated in and takes its name from the rule of Napoleon I in the First French Empire, where it was intended to idealize Napoleon’s leadership and the French state. The style corresponds to the Biedermeier style in the German-speaking lands, Federal style in the United States and to the Regency style in Britain. The previous style was called Louis XVI style, in France.
The Empire style was based on aspects of the Roman Empire. It is the second phase of neoclassicism which is also called “Directoire”, after a goverment system.
Furniture typically had symbols and ornaments borrowed from the glorious ancient Greek and Roman empires.
The furniture was made from heavy woods such as ebony, imported from the colonies, with dark finishes often with decorative bronze mounts. Marble tops were popular as were Egyptian motifs like sphinxes, griffins, urns and eagles and the Napoleonic symbols, the eagle, the bee, the initials “I” and a large “N.”
Gilded bronze (ormolu) details displayed a high level of craftsmanship.
Our reference: A4118