BY CHARLES-GUILLAUME DIEHL, PARIS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED IVORY-INLAID EBONY TABLE A OUVRAGE
BY CHARLES-GUILLAUME DIEHL, PARIS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The hinged rounded rectangular top with beaded ormolu surround and inlaid with ivory stringing and foliate trails, the reverse with an oval mirror framed by citronnier strapwork above fitted trays and covered wells, the frieze with conforming ivory stringing, on four fluted tapering legs joined by an 'X'-shaped stretcher centred by an urn, the lockplate engraved 'DIEHL A PARIS /19. r. Michel-le-Comte'
28¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 27 1/8 in. (69 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40½ in.) deep

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Lot Essay

A native of Steinbach, Germany, Diehl (d.1885) settled in Paris in 1840. He established a large atelier at 39, rue Saint-Sébastien, where by 1870 he employed no less than six hundred craftsmen. Diehl participated in all the major international exhibitions during the middle of the 19th century commencing with the Great Exhibition in 1851. Various pieces by Diehl are in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, Nancy and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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