A Régence giltwood console table, circa 1720, in the manner of Jules Degoullons
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
decorated with lattice motives, centred with a satyre mask and large foliages, the mounts reunited by a scrolling stretcher centred with a sunflower, with a red Pyrénées marble top; (regilt)
Haut. 83 cm, larg.194 cm, prof. 79 cm; Height. 32 ¾ in, width. 76 ¾ in, depth. 31 in
Related literature
B. Pons, De Paris à Versailles 1699-1736, Universités de Strasbourg, 1983, pl. 370-374.
With its high-quality craftsmanship and rich decorative repertoire, the console table presented here is in keeping with the works supplied to the royal apartments by the most eminent sculptors and cabinetmakers of the reign of Louis XIV and the Regency. Along with André and Mathieu Legoupil, Marin Bellan and Pierre Taupin, Jules Degoullons, founder in 1699 of the Société pour les Bâtiments du Roi, contributed to the decoration of the Crown's residences. Although their work was primarily intended for the sovereign, princes and members of the royal family, their clientele quickly expanded to include the high nobility and leading financiers.
The famous console table by Degoullons for the Château de Bercy around 1713 and now at the Louvre Museum (inv. OA 5049), embodies this virtuosity. The anthropomorphic masks that animate the frieze, uprights and crossbar of our console table find direct parallels in the drawings by Mathieu Legoupil at the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin (cf. B. Pons, De Paris à Versailles, 1983, pl. 370-374), which lists some fifteen male mascarons with varied expressions, closely related to those on our example.
The same decorative vocabulary can be found on console tables such as the one sold at Replica Shoes 's, London, 7 December 2010, lot 13, or another sold at Replica Shoes 's, Paris, 23 September 2023, lot 10, or a Régence table, Artcurial, Paris, 13 December 2023, lot 23.