A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD-OUTLINED PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY OCCASIONAL TABLE, by Tahan, Paris, the rectangular top with projecting rounded corners inlaid to the centre with a rectangular panel of parquetry trellis and flowerhead pattern, outlined with a scrolling foliate marquetry band, the projecting angles centred with patera, the frieze inlaid to all four sides with scrolling foliate marquetry panels and fitted with a drawer, the brass lock plate signed TAHAN FR DE L'EMPEREUR on four circular-tapering fluted legs joined by an X-stretcher, on toupie feet, late 19th Century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD-OUTLINED PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY OCCASIONAL TABLE, by Tahan, Paris, the rectangular top with projecting rounded corners inlaid to the centre with a rectangular panel of parquetry trellis and flowerhead pattern, outlined with a scrolling foliate marquetry band, the projecting angles centred with patera, the frieze inlaid to all four sides with scrolling foliate marquetry panels and fitted with a drawer, the brass lock plate signed TAHAN FR DE L'EMPEREUR on four circular-tapering fluted legs joined by an X-stretcher, on toupie feet, late 19th Century
24½in. (62.3cm.) wide; 29¼in. (74.4cm.) high; 17½in. (44.5cm.) deep

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This small ormolu-mounted occasional table was almost certainly made by Jean-Pierre-Alexandre Tahan (d.1892), son of Pierre-Lambert Tahan (d.1844) of Rue de la Paix, Paris. His workshop supplied high quality pieces during the mid-1800s, exhibiting at all Paris expositions between 1849 and 1867. This Louis XVI style piece with flower and trellis parquetry and ormolu mounts of floral festoons is in the 'antique' manner, echoing the work of the French ébeniste Jean-Henri Riesener (maître-ébéniste 1768-1806), produced in the last quarter of the 18th Century.

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