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Antique Pair Italian Flame Mahogany Giltwood Dolphin Console Tables 19th Century

$5,812.61List Priceper set

About the Item

A superb pair of Italian demi lune gilded dolphin console tables, Circa 1870 in date. The console tops having stunning starburst flame mahogany and marquetry inlaid tops with line inlaid decoration. They have striking gilded Dolphin central supports, reaching from the frieze to the lower shelf and they are raised on spherical gilded feet. The quality and attention to detail throughout is second to none. THE BOTANICAL NAME FOR THE MAHOGANY THAT THIS ITEM IS MADE OF IS SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND THIS TYPE OF MAHOGANY IS NOT SUBJECT TO CITES REGULATION AND DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY RESTRICTED MATERIALS. Condition: In really excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned, polished and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 80 cm x Width 100 cm x Depth 50 cm Dimensions in inches: Height 2 foot, 7 inches x Width 3 foot, 3 inches x Depth 1 foot, 8 inches Flame Mahogany Thomas Sheraton - 18th century furniture designer, once characterized mahogany as "best suited to furniture where strength is demanded as well as a wood that works up easily, has a beautiful figure and polishes so well that it is an ornament to any room in which it may be placed." Matching his words to his work, Sheraton designed much mahogany furniture. The qualities that impressed Sheraton are particularly evident in a distinctive pattern of wood called "flame mahogany." The flame figure in the wood is revealed by slicing through the face of the branch at the point where it joins another element of the tree. Marquetry is decorative artistry where pieces of material of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers. The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique. Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs. Our reference: A4017

Dimensions:
Height: 31.5 in (80 cm)Width: 39.38 in (100 cm)Depth: 19.69 in (50 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 2
Materials and Techniques:
Giltwood,Mahogany
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
1870-1879
Date of Manufacture:
Circa 1870
Condition:
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: A40171stDibs: LU950641120702

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