A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE DE NUIT

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE DE NUIT
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BY EMMANUEL ZWIENER

With a rectangular pierced ormolu top inset with a verde antico marble top above a frieze drawer on turned tapering reeded legs applied with ormolu ribbon, on spirally fluted toupie feet with pomegranate cast toes and a shaped X-stretcher, stamped 'E. ZWIENER'--28¾in. (73.6cm.) high, 25¾in. (66cm.) wide, 17in. (43.1cm.) deep

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Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener is recorded as having worked at 12, Rue de la Roquette in Paris from 1880 to 1895, leaving Paris to complete a Royal commission for Wilhelm II in Berlin in 1895. Zwiener's Altelier is known for fine interpretive reproductions of 18th century furniture and decorative arts. D. Ledoux-Lebards, Les Ebénistes du XIXe Sièce, 1895, pp. 645-648.