Console dressing table

The console dressing table is a piece of furniture eminently feminine in nature which is used for putting on the hair arranging implements, and for keeping jewellery, cosmetics, makeup, powders, perfumes… It is generally found in bedrooms or in rooms of a semi-private nature like the toilette or the boudoir. / This one is made up of a console table with a chest of drawers and a mirror. Although it maintains the Empire shapes in its heaviness and the curved movement of the main drawers, it has the smoothness, slenderness and simplicity of shapes characteristic of the furniture under the Regency of María Cristina. The Queen Governess style appears clearly associated with bourgeoisie dwellings as opposed to the rigid military etiquette symbolising the Napoleonic world of the court and the aristocracy. The marquetry, which was mass-produced in specialised workshops, is done with yellow woods of different hues. The decorative motifs, describing little flowers, floral elements and canes, are arranged symmetrically around a rosette.