Regency Console 18 Eme

Richly carved oak console table - Originally a fixed element of paneling, this console table has carved decoration on three of its sides. Each crosspiece is composed of a central shell, with for the belt, an openwork apron developing in the form of acanthus scrolls with finely carved crosslets. -The four curved feet rest on caprid hooves treated naturally and enhanced with an outgoing scrolled crook under a long acanthus leaf. Their upper part accommodates a bust with the head of a woman enclosed between two volutes with a rococo and nervous sculpture curving inwards (the use of human heads in the round at the tops of the furniture uprights is a contribution from André-Charles Boulle around 1680.