Elizabethan style console; Spain, c. 1850.

Elizabethan style console; Spain, c. 1850.
Carved and gilded wood, with marble top.
Measurements: 97 x 47 x 57 cm.
The four legs of the console table have a light cabriole shape, a front carved with scrolls and vegetal elements, and are joined at the bottom by chambranes also decorated with classicist-inspired leaves, which are joined in a central crowned form. The waist of the table has two curved areas towards the ends, and an openwork front with the same type of decoration inspired by Antiquity as the legs: stems, garlands, wreaths associated with the emperors, bows... The upper table top follows the lines of the furniture: curved front corners, and a small projection towards the front.
It is clearly inspired by decorative elements taken either from the Renaissance or from classical antiquity (more Imperial Rome than Greece), as is usual in Neoclassical works. However, the movement of the upper panel, the openwork decoration on the front, the light cabriole legs and the abundance of decoration and gilding on this piece of furniture are also related to a survival of the forms of the other 18th century style.