The form of this marble-topped and mirrored étagère, deriving from the early 19th Century drawer-fitted bonheur-du-jour, with its antique ornament comprising Egyptian-caryatid 'herm' supports, relates to furniture patterns published in Pierre La Méssangères Collection de Meubles et Objets de Gout 1802

Its antique form and fretted-ribbon inlay corresponds to the 'Empire revival' style manufactured in the 1890s by firms such as Messrs Edwards and Roberts of London (see F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p.248)