A Very Good Victorian Ebonised, Parcel Gilt & Marble Console Table c.1875 sub-Architectural & Garden the art of trompe l'oeil

the art of trompe l'oeil flourished from the Renaissance period with the discovery of perspective in fifteenth-century Italy and advancements in the science of optics in the seventeenth-century Netherlands enabled artists to render objects and spaces with eye-fooling exactitude

Relief moulded jugs (some with ceramic or metal lids)

but it was not until the 1802 publication of Dominique Denon's Voyages Dans la Basse et Haute Egypte that a resurgence in popularity of Egyptology became notable

in the Gothic style

Both the easel and easel painting developed during the Renaissance period of art

A Very Good Victorian Ebonised, Parcel Gilt & Marble Console Table c.1875 sub-Architectural & Garden the art of trompe l'oeilOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 85 Height: 33. 75 Width: 36. 25 Depth: 15 (at extremities) The ebonised console table, of aesthetic movement influence, with a breakfront slate marble top over octagonal Ionic baluster columns, the whole being parcel gilt decorated and sitting on large brass castors survives from the third quarter of nineteenth century England. The table hasnt had any restoration to note and