A german Carved Giltwood Console Table, with a serpentine veneered Böttinger marble top above a pierced frieze with garlands and C and S-scrolls, on two scrolled legs with pronounced C-scrolls and flowerheads terminating in s-scrolls feet joined by an X-form shaped stretcher centred with a cartouche from which emerges c-scrolls of elongated leaves and flowerheads, the whole carved with flamed rocaille, flowers and foliage.
 

Provenance

Stuttgart. Ludwigsburg Palace.
European private collection 

Literature

Kreisel 19832, 19894, S. 46; Wenger 1997, S. 63
-, Abb. 595 und S. 210; Merten
GESCHICHTE: 5. Kat. Nr. 29.
Die französischen Möbel des 18. Jahrhunderts in Schloß Ludwigsburg, p.149

Detail Description

A German Carved Giltwood Console Table, with a serpentine veneered Böttinger marble top above a pierced frieze with garlands and C and S-scrolls, on scrolled legs with pronounced C-scrolls and flowerheads terminating in s-scrolls feet joined by an X-form shaped stretcher centred with a cartouche from which emerges c-scrolls of elongated leaves and flowerheads, the whole carved with flamed rocaille, flowers and foliage.
Positively rare in its transitional, original shape and design, this console table was almost certainly once one of a pair and part of the larger, imposing suite of furniture executed for the Royal palace of Ludwigsburg.
Circle of Michel Fressancourt after a design of Philippe De la Guepiēre
Stuttgart, ca. 1755

Böttinger Marble, a thermal sinter limestone, is one of the most striking and unusual natural stones in Baden-Württemberg. This polishable, dark red and yellowish-white banded variety is known as "Böttinger Banded Marble" or "Banded Marble." Because the term "marble" refers to metamorphic carbonate rocks, it is of course geologically incorrect for Böttinger Thermal Sinter; in this case, it is derived from the marble-like banding and good polishability of the limestone. This so-called banded marble was particularly sought after as a prestigious decorative stone in the 18th and 19th centuries.