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Console Table
Creator
UnknownAll works by this person →More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1780
- Medium
- Gilt wood; marble top
- Culture
- French (Paris)
- Department
- Decorative Arts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- aeea8faa-3774-4f92-be05-a9e0a6fdc716
From the Getty Museum record
Console tables were usually made to stand against a wall, but this table actually attaches to the wall and cannot stand freely. Its small size made it suitable for a smaller and more intimate room, such as salons in Parisian townhouses of the late 1700s. Often, architects designed these forms of tables, because they considered console tables part of the interior architecture of a room. The design of this table derives from drawings by architect Richard de Lalond (active 1780-1790). The unknown woodworker who executed de Lalond’s design possessed extraordinary talent to carve the intricately detailed garlands of flowers.
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