Console Table

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On display at Grosvenor House Museum, Chester

Artist/Maker	Unknown (maker)
Place of origin	England (made)

Console table. Mahogany and carved and gilt pinewood. A wavy shaped top of mahogany painted in imitation of black green-veined marble, is supported, below an open-work rococo frieze of carved and gilt pinewood with scrolled and foliated detail by two pinewood cabriole front-legs with scrolled and foliated detail carved in openwork, terminating in turned-up scrolled feet, and connected about six inches above the ground by a stretcher of irregular convergent foliated openwork forms, also of carved and gilt pinewood.

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Category	Furniture
Object type	Console table
Materials and techniques	Mahogany and carved and gilt pinewood. Mahogany Pinewood Carved Gilt
Brief description	English, 1750-60, giltwood base with painted 'marbling' top. RF: 56/641
Physical description	Console table. Mahogany and carved and gilt pinewood. A wavy shaped top of mahogany painted in imitation of black green-veined marble, is supported, below an open-work rococo frieze of carved and gilt pinewood with scrolled and foliated detail by two pinewood cabriole front-legs with scrolled and foliated detail carved in openwork, terminating in turned-up scrolled feet, and connected about six inches above the ground by a stretcher of irregular convergent foliated openwork forms, also of carved and gilt pinewood.
Dimensions	Height: 74.9cm (From grey file) Width: 112cm (From grey file) Depth: 48.3cm (From grey file)
Collection	Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number	W.40-1938

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O371901/console-table-unknown/

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