Console Table

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Console Table

Creator

Pierre Contant d'Ivry

French Designer · 1698–1777

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One of the most celebrated designers working in the late Rococo and early Neoclassical style was Pierre Contant d'Ivry, who produced designs for furniture as well as buildings. Contant d'Ivry, who held the title of architect to the king, worked only with very rich and influential clients such as the duc d'Orléans. Among his most famous designs were the Madeleine church in Paris and a renovation of

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Date
about 1750–1755
Medium
Gilded oak, with modern marble slab
Culture
French
Department
Decorative Arts
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
742983ed-3a66-4670-a301-1cc994d96a32

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In France in the 1700s, precise rules governed the arrangement of a formal room. Console tables were generally intended for a specific place, as they were considered part of the interior architecture. Architects often designed them, usually specifying carved decoration that matched the wall paneling and mirror frames. The carved shells, leafy scrolls, and basket of flowers on this console are all similar to a pair of tables created for the Danish ambassador to the court of Louis XV. Baron de Bernstorff, an ardent Francophile, ordered the architect Pierre Contant d'Ivry to produce designs for the furniture and interiors of his house in Copenhagen. Among the works produced were a pair of console tables that are similar both in their overall design and in their carved details to the Getty Museum's piece.

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  • Representative object from the topic Decorative Console Tables, 17th-18th Century
    Decorative Console Tables, 17th-18th Century

    These 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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