细节 A LOUIS XVI PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLECIRCA 1785The Serpentina verde di Polcevera marble top above an egg-and-dart moulding on a frieze carved with scrolling foliate motifs centred on the long sides by a rosette and on the short sides by an acanthus frond, the stop-fluted tapering legs headed by Ionic capitals beneath rosettes, joined by an X-shaped stretcher decorated with entrelac and centred by a classical urn hung with floral swags, on foliate toupie feet, the urn to the stretcher possibly associated, refreshments to the decoration34 1/2 in. (87.5 cm.) high; 44 1/2 in. (112 cm.) wide; 22 1/4 in. (56.5 cm.) deep 来源 Collection of Sigismond Bardac; Galerie Georges Petit, Mes F. Lair-Dubreuil and Henri Baudoin, Paris, 11 May 1920, lot 97 (acquired for 31,000 francs during the sale by a Mr. Decobeaux). 出版 COMPARATIVE LITERATUREB. Pallot, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Vol. II, 1993, Dijon, p. 167. 注意事项 This lot will be removed to Christie’s Park Royal. 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VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.This striking Neo-Classical console table, incorporating bold Ionic columnar legs and foliate carved frieze, recalls the oeuvres of two of the foremost menusiers of this period, Georges Jacob (maître in 1765), and Jean-Baptiste Sené (maître in 1769). These celebrated menusiers dominated the market for furniture production in Paris during the last years of the Ancien Régime. Their principal clients were Louis XVI and the Queen and from 1785-1791 they provided seat furniture, beds, consoles, folding stools, footstools and screens for Fontainebleau, the Tuileries, Versailles and particularly Saint-Cloud.The present console relates closely to a suite of furniture by Jean-Baptiste Sené delivered to the Château de Saint-Cloud in 1788 for Marie-Antoinette's Cabinet de Toilette and recorded in an inventory of Saint-Cloud taken in 1789. The commission was part of the ambitious remodeling project undertaken by Marie-Antoinette and her architect Richard Mique in 1786. Much of the furniture designed for the Queen’s new apartments was white painted and parcel-gilt. The suite comprised four fauteuils, a daybed, a bergère, a fire screen, and a footstool and incorporated the same ‘classical vocabulary, elegantly arranged’ (B. Pallot, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Vol. II, 1993, Dijon, p. 167) as seen in the present lot. The carving to the legs of the present console table, modelled as fluted classical columns headed by Ionic capitals with laurel and acanthus leaf motifs, is identical to that used by Sené in the Saint-Cloud suite.Coincidentally, the present console can be seen to relate to a further pair of console tables formerly in the Collection of the Duke of Sutherland at Stafford House and attributed to Georges Jacob (maître in 1765). They were probably acquired by the first Duke of Sutherland between 1790-92, during his tenure as Ambassador to France; he was known at this time to have acquired pieces of Royal provenance from the Château de Saint-Cloud. The Stafford pair is identical to a further pair of console tables, probably conceived en suite, sold from the Wildenstein Collection at Christie’s, London, on 14 December 2005, lot 72 for £254,500. SIGISMOND BARDACThe present console formed part of the collection of the celebrated banker Sigismond Bardac (1856-1919). Born in 1856 in Nijni-Novgorod in Russia, Sigismond Bardac was the son of Léon Bardac (c. 1823-1872) and Rachel Alias Regina Heilbronn (c. 1821-1892). He became an important banker in Paris and lived in a hôtel particulier (now destroyed) located at 30 rue de Berri, in the 8th arrondissement, later known as the hôtel de la marquise de Chaponay; he subsequently lived in an apartment located at 39 Avenue Victor Emmanuel III (now Avenue Franklin Roosevelt) in the same arrondissement.A great lover of art, he gathered in his hôtel an exceptional collection of paintings, drawings, furniture and works of art. In 1879 he married Emma Léa Moyse (1862-1934), then aged seventeen, with whom he had two children - a son, the composer Raoul Bardac and a daughter Hélène Bardac, known as Dolly, who would become Madame Gaston de Tinan (1892-1985).Emma was an accomplished soprano and brilliant conversationalist. During her marriage to Sigismond Bardac she embarked on an affair with the composer Gabriel Fauré, who wrote his celebrated La Bonne Chanson in 1892-1893 whilst staying in Bougival as a guest of the Bardac family. Fauré dedicated the composition to Emma, who would reputedly sing the newly composed material for him each morning during his sojourn in Bougival.Emma and Sigismond divorced on 4 May 1905, Emma subsequently married Claude Debussy, with whom she had been having an affair since 1903. Their turbulent and troubled union produced one daughter, Claude-Emma, called ‘Chouchou’ for whom Debussy dedicated his Children’s corner suite in 1909.Sigismond Bardac died prematurely in Paris on 4 May 1919 aged 63. A sale of his estate was held at Georges Petit Gallery on 10-11 May 1920, where the collection he had amassed throughout his life, including Old Master paintings, drawings, sculpture and Italian faience-ware from the 15th century was dispersed. The present console was acquired at this sale by a ‘M. Decobeaux’ for 31,000 FF.