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Console Table
- Date
- about 1765–1770
- Medium
- Silvered and gilt bronze; bleu turquin marble top; modern marbleized wood base
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Decorative Arts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 32727d0d-04a5-4518-a974-e009e4873874
From the Getty Museum record
Furniture made entirely of metal was extremely rare in the 1700s as each individual piece had to be laboriously forged. Very few pieces still exist today. This console table, executed in the massive early Neoclassical style, was almost certainly made by Pierre Deumier, a metal worker and a locksmith. In a French newspaper he advertised a table whose description closely matches this console. A similar console table appears in a 1766 drawing by the French architect Victor Louis. The Polish king Stanislas Auguste II commissioned it for a room in the royal palace in Warsaw. That table was delivered in 1769, but its present location is unknown.
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Decorative Console Tables, 17th-18th CenturyThese objects are elegant console tables from European courts (primarily France, Italy, and Germany) of the 17th-18th centuries, characterized by ornamental materials like gilded wood, marble tops, and decorative inlays
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