The carved base decorated with a Greek key pattern blind fretwork frieze, egg and tongue mouldings. With pierced and open corner brackets and architectural fret pattern legs. The breche violette marble top a later replacement.

This table combines two of the predominant styles of the day – the gothic and the rococo decoration – popularised by pattern books such as Thomas Chippendale’s famous ‘The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director’, which was first published in 1754. The design for the blind fretwork which is used to decorate the legs of our console table has similar elements to the frieze used on a preparatory drawing for a Library Table which was published in Thomas Chippendale’s ‘Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director’ in 1753, Plate LVIII. The preparatory drawing is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the plate was published in reverse as plate LVIII in the 1754 and 1755 editions of ‘Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director’, before being renumbered as plate LXXXV in the 1762 edition.