A PAIR OF FRENCH KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY-INLAID OVAL BEDSIDE TABLES, in the Transitional style, each with a top with a pierced brass three-quarter gallery inlaid with a marquetry panel in the chinoiserie style, depicting a pavilion, steps, a boat, a bird and foliage, above three small drawers, one drawer with an impressed metal label LK9446, the sides and back also inlaid in the chinoiserie style, on four shaped square-tapering legs headed by boxwood-inlaid flutes joined by a kidney-shaped undertier with galleried edge similarly decorated with marquetry and terminating with sabots, late 19th early 20th Century

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A PAIR OF FRENCH KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY-INLAID OVAL BEDSIDE TABLES, in the Transitional style, each with a top with a pierced brass three-quarter gallery inlaid with a marquetry panel in the chinoiserie style, depicting a pavilion, steps, a boat, a bird and foliage, above three small drawers, one drawer with an impressed metal label LK9446, the sides and back also inlaid in the chinoiserie style, on four shaped square-tapering legs headed by boxwood-inlaid flutes joined by a kidney-shaped undertier with galleried edge similarly decorated with marquetry and terminating with sabots, late 19th early 20th Century
19½in. (49.5cm.) wide; 31in. (78.8cm.) high; 14¼in. (36.2cm.) deep (2)

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In the latter half of the 18th Century, such Tables de Nuit or Tables en Chiffonier became popular in French society taste. These later examples are typically shaped with their pierced galleries, three drawers and kidney-shaped platforms. The chinoiserie style inlay on the top and sides is in the manner of Chinese export painted wallpaper dating from the mid-18th Century.

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