Louis XVI Style Marquetry Side Table, 19th Century

A good quality late 19th century Louis XVI style side table, having a Sienna marble top, a single frieze drawer, parquetry inlaid decoration to the frieze, raised on elegant cabriole...

A very good quality late 19th century floral marquetry inlaid side table, having a single frieze drawer with gilded ormolu mount depicting a mask between foliate decoration, a slide ...

A very good quality French Louis XVI style marquetry inlaid card table. The top having wonderful floral and musical instruments inlaid. Serpe...

A very good quality French walnut marquetry inlaid card table in the style of Louis XVI. The marquetry inlaid top with wonderful musical instruments, flower and foliate decoration to...

A 19th century Louis XV style French nightstand or side table with inlaid marquetry veneers of walnut and mahogany. Pull down cabinet door with false...

Louis XV Style Marquetry Inlaid Tripod side table with gilt bronze mounts.

A 19th century Louis XV style French two-drawer side table, or night stand with inlaid marquetry veneers of walnut and mahogany. Cast bronze hardware. Nice proportions with curved co...

A Fine and Rare Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marquetry Occasional Table. By Emmanuel Alfred (dit Alfred II) Beurdeley. Paris. France, Circa 1885. The top with marquetry of precious fruitwoods and rare timbers depicting a central cartouche of two monkeys standing in a classical landscape, dressed as men playing a drum and a tambourine. The surrounding marquetry composed of rocaille framed trellis parquetry panels with musical attributes. The shaped top surrounded by a three-quarter gilt-bronze gallery. The top slides back and the drawer opens to reveal a writing tray. The serpentine sides with cartouches with flower-filled marquetry. On cabriole legs headed by gilt-bronze rocaille clasps. Beautifully rendered by Beurdeley this ‘table Singeries’ is ennobled with the fullest frivolity of the rococo. The marquetry scene on the top derives from engravings published in Paris in the mid-eighteenth century entitled ‘Le Tambour de Basque’ and 'Le Tambourin’ by J. Guelard after designs by Christophe Huet (died 1759) from a series entitled ‘Singeries ou Différentes Actions de la Vie Humaine Representées par des Singes’. The present writing table is almost identical to an 18th century table in the James A. de Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor (inv. 3472) which was purchased by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild at the legendary auction of Prince Demidov’s Florentine Palazzo San Donato in 1880 (Lot 1554 — Très jolie table...