the later serpentine giallo antico moulded marble top above a scroll carved bombé frieze with a drawer flanked by conforming panels on four rocaille carved cabriole legs

Emmie Avery Keddell, The Earl and Countess of Crewe at Home, The Pall Mall Magazine, July-December 1906, vol. 38., p.429, illustrated in the Red Drawing Room at Crewe House, London;
Crewe House, London, Inventory, Vol. I, 1913, p.211, in the North Drawing Room; The white enamelled Console Table of Louis XV design [sic] with shaped top, raised gilt mouldings and enrichments of scrolls, etc. fitted 1 drawer, lock and 1 key on cabriole supports, surmounted by a shaped Sicilian marble slab. 6ft. 6. wide.

Losses to paint and gesso. Redecoration and re-touching. Minor chips to the marble.
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This impressive console, with its grey-painted ground, parcel gilt and bold carvings, typifies the South German interpretation of Rococo. It is characteristic of the work of Munich cabinet-makers, such as Joachim Dietricht and Johann Thomas Sailler, who were reproducing designs created by the court architect Jean François Cuvilliés (1695-1768).

Cuvilliés was one of the leading German Rococo architects and des🐎igners in the first half of the 18th century who became Court architect in Munich in 1728 and was responsible for the interiors in the Residenz, Munich around 1729-1737 and the Amelienburg in the Park of Nymphenburg near Munich (1734-39). From 1738, with engravings by Karl Albert von Lespilliez, he published a series of 300 designs for ornament and boiseries and furniture, which became instrumental in disseminating his personal style in Germany.

Instilled by Cuvilliés, light coloured furniture with gilt carvings became archetypal in Bavarian interiors, and the present lot uses a number of elements which appear profusely in his designs, such as the latticework to the ground of sides and drawer, a reminiscence of his Régence training with Joseph Effner. The curved legs with rhythmical rocailles and acanthus are also a constant feature. Rare nevertheless, are the wide proportions of this commode en console and accentuated trapezoidal ꧃shape, which indicate being part of a v꧂ery specific commission for a grand Rococo interior.