Serving Console, Louis XVI Period

Console console Louis XVI with rounded sides in mahogany and mahogany veneer. It opens with a belt drawer, the tapered fluted base is connected by two service shelves surrounded by an openwork gallery. The veined white marble top is surrounded by an openwork gallery. Ornamentation of gilded bronzes: friezes of heart stripes, rings, keyholes, galleries and clogs. It bears a C stamp. M. MAGNIEN (Claude-Mathieu), received in Paris on April 17, 1771, he worked successfully until the Empire. Towards the end of the reign of Louis XVI, he carried out some work for the furniture of the crown, among other things a chest of drawers intended for the apartments of the Princess of Lamballe in the Château de Fontainebleau. Parisian work from the Louis XVI period. Rare small console in a beautiful original condition, some wrinkles of time: slight undulations on the shelves, a small crack on the marble and some small stains.