Entrance console
La consul, console, for the entrance is a wall shelf to place dishes for table service. The support of the furniture is ensured by rear elements that fix it to the wall and by front legs.
The console, sometimes made in two twin copies, had the same height as the table. The protruding part could be rounded and the shelf made of a marble slab.
Typical piece of furniture Rocaille style it had two or four legs, curved and decorated with scrolls and curls and fixed together by a crosspiece enriched with a decorative motif, often in the shape of a shell or urn.
Consoles were generally gilded with pure gold leaf and, if smaller, were raised from the ground, like shelves. In the eighteenth century, in Venice, consoles painted with tiny flowers on a blue, ochre or greenish background were in fashion.
Sometimes the consoles were characterized by a single leg, represented by a small column, an eagle, a Moor or a lyre. In the Empire style the consoles were made of dark lacquered wood (mahogany or walnut) and had four legs, not connected to each other and stiffened in the shape of a column with a gilded bronze capital.
They were also in fashion crescent-shaped console with the shape of a round table cut in half and sometimes with two rounded doors under the top. They could be recomposed in this way to form a single round table.
In the Liberty style, wrought iron consoles were also produced.
The console table is often accompanied by a mirror, sometimes flanked by appliques; or it is placed in correspondence with a painting hanging on the wall. On the shelf you can place some crockery, or you can arrange precious furnishings in gilded bronze, such as table clocks, or collections of objects.
Source: Wikipedia
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