French Verre Églomisé Coffee Table

An unusual large bronze coffee or cocktail table with an oval glass top. The base with seabed verdigris finish and three patinated bronze swimming Sting Rays...

A very good quality table by Maison Jansen, with elaborate gold gilt supports in the Rococo manner, and a shaped top in parchment. Stamped Jansen underneath.

From the Biri range, with brass accents and figures supporting the thick glass top. Peter Ghyczy, child of a widespread aristocratic family, grew up in Buda, a fine district of Budapest. After the invasion of the Red Army 1945, in which his father was killed, he was sent to the family's property Vásárosnameny in the Puszta plains, where he also visited the village school. In 1947 he was brought to Belgium by the International Red Cross for one year, where he learned French. After the family was expropriated of their estate, he returned to his mother in Budapest, where he finished primary school. From 1954 on he attended the Benedictine Secondary School in Pannonhalma connected to a famous monastery. 1956, after the crushing of the Hungarian uprising against the communist regime, he fled with his mother and brother via Vienna to Bonn. In 1960 he attained his "Abitur" (A level) and started to study architecture at the Technical University of Aachen specializing on constructional engineering. Beginning in 1961 he assisted professor Rudolf Steinbach, a renowned German architect, and later worked at the institute of plastic research. In between he took jobs in Paris and at a Unesco project in Kalabsha, Egypt, which was saving antique ruins...

An unusual two-piece brass and Lucite coffee table, with moulded edge and curved shape with two organic cast brass supports signed by des...

A large gold gilt wrought iron three legged coffee table by Maison Ramsay. The scrolled console legs with sweeping supports to centre acorn finial. The Asymmetrical design with clear...

A Brass, Chrome and Lucite coffee/Cocktail table by Belgo Chrome circa 1970. The chrome and brass plinth base with a curved lucite support holding the thick glass top.

Important French midcentury reverse painted glass coffee table with silver leaf top and legs decorated in a leaf pattern and in an elegant square form. Maison Jansen made a piece with similar styling for the Duke and Duchess Windsor...

A set of two French Mid-Century Modern coffee tables that form one long table: Each with reverse painted glass top that has been hand gilt in the form of squares. Designed by Guy Lef...

A set of two French Mid-Century Modern coffee tables that form one long table: Each with reverse painted glass top that has been hand gilt in the form of squares. Designed by Guy Lef...

A round wrought iron and églomisé coffee table, possibly French, circa 1930s.

French Forties Art Deco coffee table by Maurice Jallot, circa 1947, in cream lacquer with original verre eglomise glass top and gilt bronze mounts. 40” long x 17” deep x 17” high. Pictured in Mobilier et Decoration, 1947. Maurice Jallot (1900-1971) Maurice Jallot was born in Paris during the 1900 Exposition Universelle – an auspicious beginning for a career in the arts. He studied at the Ecole Boulle in Paris and upon graduating, joined his father’s (Leon Jallot) studio in 1921. He left for a while to gain outside experience and rejoined the firm in 1930. A versatile and imaginative designer, Maurice Jallot exhibited a range of pieces and ensembles at the annual salons, some in partnership with his father and some singly. For the 1925 L'Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes - the World's fair held in Paris, France, from April to October 1925 the Jallots provided furnishings for the Hotel du Collectionneur (grand salon), Ambassade Francaise, La Societe Noel, La Maison de Bretagne, and Gouffe Jeune. Their furniture in the 1920s was fabricated from woods – palisander, walnut, pearwood, amboyna, camphor. From the mid-1920s the Jallots faced the Challenge common to all woodworkers: whether to adjust to, or fight, the revolutionary introduction of glass and metal. They chose the former, introducing a distinctive range of modern furniture: stainless steel tables, mirrored cabinety, etc. Maurice participated in the interior decoration for A French Embassy...

Baker Furniture Verre églomisé gilt ebonized antique coffee table, labelled. Baker marking dates to 1940 according to my research. Extremely rare piece.