Lot 255: Irish Highly Carved Mahogany Console Table

A Fine Irish Highly Carved Mahogany Console Table, mid-19th c., after a design by Matthias Lock (English, 1710-1765), rectangular verde antico marble top, central masque of Hercules wearing the skin of the Nemean lion amid heavy swags, massive foliate embellished cabriole legs, hairy paw feet, height 36 1/2 in., width 79 in., depth 30 in Note. Design elements from this table relate to a pencil drawing by Matthias Lock now at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Lock is credited as the first to publish Rococo designs in England; of these his A New Book of Ornament, 1752 was the most encompassing prior to Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, 1754