Highly significant and extremely rare pair of magnificent corner consoles, Italy, Rome, last quarter 18th century ...

Highly significant and extremely rare pair of magnificent corner consoles, Italy, Rome, last quarter 18th century, probably after designs of Richard de Lalonde (1735-1808) to be attributed to a Roman master workshop.

Wood, carved, fluted and with the original gilding. High-format consoles with a beautifuf Verde Antico marble top. The console frame beveled on the sides and carved with exceedingly fine acanthus foliage, with fluted fillet above. The three legs in circular form, carved with palmette capitals and foliate carved manchette. 109:107:65 cm

Provenance: From a Swiss private collection. - Auction Stuker 12.05.2012, lot 2116. - European private collection.

The pair of corner consoles offered here belong to the most high-quality works of Roman early classicism and must have been created for one of the most important palazzi of the city on the Tiber. The quality of the carving is extraordinary and at the same time the master shows here his talent in the sinuous fluting of the legs. The master carver probably used one of the models from Richard de Lalonde's very famous work of the time, Cahiers d'ameublement, from the last quarter of the 18th century, as a model for the very special execution of the plate capitals, as well as the sinuous fluting of the staff legs. Here the capitals, as drawn by de Lalonde, are used freely and in an inverted form.

Literature:
E. Berkenhagen, The French Drawings of the Berlin Art Library, Berlin, 1970;