# Console-Desserte [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RIESENER, Jean-Henri]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Gilt-bronze-and brass-mounted fruitwood and ebony inlaid sycamore, mahogany and parquetry, 91 x 99 x 43 cm ## Commentary Console-Desserte c. 1785 Gilt-bronze-and brass-mounted fruitwood and ebony inlaid sycamore, mahogany and parquetry, 91 x 99 x 43 cm Private collection This elegant console-desserte has a D-shaped grey-veined white marble top above a frieze containing three drawers mounted with alternating pierced band of gilt-bronze bell-flowers and lunettes, the backboard with lozenges, on square tapering legs joined by a marble shelf with a pierced gilt-bronze gallery terminating in tapering block feet with gilt-bronze foliate sabots. This piece demonstrates Riesener in transition from the elaborate pictorial marquetry of his early career to the sober plain veneers of his later years. ## Related artworks - [Drop-front secretaire]() - [Roll-top desk \(detail\)]() - [Roll-top desk]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()