Pere Cosp, Louis XVI style game table in reverse glass painting, 1950’s

Pere Cosp i Villaro, stamped.

Circular Louis XVI style game table in veneered bloodwood, gilt highlights standing on four tapered, fluted legs with gilt chandelles and ending with carved and gilt acanthus leaves. Apron adorned beneathe every legs by carved and gilt motifs of acanthus leaves. Circular tray with small ressauts on the leg line with a carved and gilt decor of shell.
Middle part of the upper tray in reverse glass painting with a green background adorned with motifs of ribbons, dices, play cards, gilt foliage scrolls and scrolled pedestals topped by birds. Edges are decorated with large black and gilt cartouches alternating black and red spades, clubs, hearts or diamonds.

Stamp beneath the apron “P. COSP”.

Work realized in the 1950’s.

Wear constitent with use on the reverse glass painting tray.

Dimensions : H 69 x D 118 cm.

Reference : LS39911601

Pere Cosp i Villaro (1907-2007)Pere Cosp i Villaro (1907-2007), furniture manufacturer and decorator established in Barcelona, he was active since 1940’s. Essentially autodidact, Pere Cosp managed the manufacture workshop in an innovative way, often opposite to current trends. Transgressive, he mixed styles between them and took over each decorative detail on every building project.
This model of game table was taken over in many projects of Pere Cosp. We saw it with an apron richly adorned in the 1950’s, in an apartment of the Queen Victoria street in Madrid, where it took place in a very classical atmosphere treated with many freedom. We also saw it reinterpreted in an Art Nouveau version in the 1970’s in a flat in the Doctor Ferran street.