Pair Of Mahogany Console Tables Stamped Bernard Molitor

Pair of mahogany console tables, the top in griotte marble with inverted molding resting on a belt with laurel leaf wreaths and ribbon and mascaron in a diamond-shaped frame with palmettes, supported by sheathed uprights with antique female busts in caryatid form and rectangular plinth surmounted at the rear by a mirror base; (small restorations). Stamp of Bernard Molitor, cabinetmaker received master in 1787.
Consulate period.
Used condition
H: 91 cm, W: 97 cm, D: 46 cm

Bibliography: U. Leben, Molitor, cabinetmaker from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII, Paris, 1992, p. 99 and n°88, p. 194.
Exhibition: Bernard Molitor (1755-1833), cat. exp., Luxembourg, 1995, n°37, p. 96 and p. 221.
Ulrich Leben, author of the reference work and curator of the exhibition on Bernard Molitor, places these two console tables chronologically during the period of the Consulate (1799-1804), thus attesting to the very pioneering character of the cabinetmaker who is illustrated here in a style heralding the Empire period.