A German Neoclassical parcel-gilt, green-painted and carved console table, based on a design by François Cuvilliés the younger and probably carved by Michael Pössenbacher Munich, circa 1772

the back rail with a paper label with inked inscription X158 Console / Table / (Adam) / 11.1914 / Isaacs.

D. L. Isaacs, London, 1914
purchased from the above by William Hesketh Lever, Viscount Leverhulme, and sent to his London townhouse The Hill at Hampstead
Hyde Park Antiques Ltd., New York, 1991

 

Patrick Broome, The Hyde Park Collection, 1965-1990, Hong Kong, 1989, pp. 182-183

The later marble top in good condition. With minor age and construction cracks. Swags of apron with some restored breaks. Some old worm damage to back. Repainted, paint now with rubbing and traces of gilding. Reilt, gilding with some losses, surface dirt and rubbing. In good condition.
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François de Cuvilliés the Younger (1731-1777) was the son of François de Cuvilliés the Elder. Like his father he was a designer and ornamental engraver. Cuvilliés was initially trained by his father and studied at the Paris Académie Royale. In 1757 he was employed at the electoral court in Munich and in 1765 was promoted to captain. At court he executed pieces in the late Rococo and early Neoclassical styles. He was also employed at the workshop of his father until his father's death in 1768. For a table by Cuvilliés the Younger decorated with similar ram's heads, see Heinrich Kreisel and Georg Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1973, pl. 224.