A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES
CIRCA 1735, POSSIBLY BY FRANÇOIS ROUMIER
Each with a later serpentine moulded breche d'alep marble top above a pierced frieze exuberantly carved with rocaille, C-scrolls, flowers sprays and scrolling foliage centred by a stylised scallopshell, with conformingly-carved slightly concaved sides, on shell-headed double-scrolled legs carved with winged dolphins issuing trailing flowerheads joined by a pierced stretched carved with dragon-headed scrolls and centred by a further dolphin; regilt
36 in. (92 cm.) high; 71 in. (180 cm.) wide; 24 ½ in. (62 cm.) deep

Provenance
Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818-1874), Mentmore, Buckinghamshire
Thence by descent to his daughter Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery (1851-1890) and son-in-law Archibald Philip Primrose, the 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), where they were in the Green Drawing Room at Mentmore, photographed in situ, circa 1871 (Private family album).
Sold on behalf of the Executors of the 6th Earl of Rosebery and his family, Sotheby's, Parke Bernet & Co at Mentmore Buckinghamshire, Mentmore Vol. I, 18th May 1977, lot 21, illustrated p. 19.
With Partridge Fine Arts, London, circa 2004.
Anonymous Sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2010, lot 15.