Lacquered Wood Luois XVI Console Italy 18th Century
Features
Style: Louis XVI (1774-1792)
Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800
Origin: Piemonte, Italy
Main essence: Silver Fir
Description
Parietal table with four truncated pyramidal legs, frontal band with central rose window and peach blossom marble top. The entire surface is embellished with monding decorations applied on wide green tempere reserves on a ivory base coat, except for the pink shades shelling on the legs. On the legs there are flowery carvings with falls of leaves, same pattern of the bands with central flower, twings of leaves and flower buds; the central rowe window contains Medusa's head while on the pillars there are lion protomes with a ring in the mouth. The countertop is surmounting a frame with banded wreath, following leaves and small pearls. The entire appliqued decoration is painted in shades of pink, green, blue and purple while Medusa's heads had been painted realistically.
Product Condition:
Very good condition. Wear consistent with age and use. It may have been restored by an expert.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 87
Width: 124
Depth: 62
Certificate issued by: Enrico Sala
Additional Information
Notes historical bibliographic
This type of decoration typical of the neo-classicism has a character that looks very to the decorations and the remains of salt, pompeian, both as a subject and as a colour; taste, who found large success in England and in some areas of Italy, Piedmont and the most known examples still exist of the castle of Masino is one of the most vivid examples of this taste.Style: Louis XVI (1774-1792)
The Louis XVI style precedes by many years the coming to the throne of the sovereign from which the name derives.The renewed prevalence of the composure of geometric shapes that characterize the furniture of the neoclassical era, is welcomed as an antidote to the freer and more capricious formulations imposed by the Rococo dictates.
The artist's imagination works free interpretations derived from examples of the Greek-Roman, Etruscan or Egyptian world, from which only the architectural metrics are re-proposed with strict observance.
In this sense, it should be noted that only starting from the 1970s and 1980s in cabinet making did we witness the sunset of the pictorial flowering in inlay, in favor of models with a prevalence of geometric ornamentation.
Therefore, furniture characterized by extreme elegance and virile austerity matures.
In Italy, the Louis XVI style finds natural diffusion.
The furniture tends in the norm since the Sixties-Seventies to adopt a linear structure with a strong presence of decorations.
The use of light brown-colored woods is preferred, such as cherry.
The Italian Louis XVI will always remain linked to the production of furnishing accessories specifically oriented to the inlay typology.
These are furniture of well-proportioned dimensions, supported by the characteristic truncated conical pyramid legs, dressed in the mirrors of the top, sides and panels centered by elegant geometric decorations.