Console Table

Furniture made entirely of metal was extremely rare in the 1700s as each individual piece had to be laboriously forged. Very few pieces still exist today. This console table, executed in the massive early Neoclassical style, was almost certainly made by Pierre Deumier, a metal worker and a locksmith. In a French newspaper he advertised a table whose description closely matches this console. A similar console table appears in a 1766 drawing by the French architect Victor Louis. The Polish king Stanislas Auguste II commissioned it for a room in the royal palace in Warsaw. That table was delivered in 1769, but its present location is unknown.