Details
A Napolean III ebonised and brass mounted meuble d'appui with eared rectangular mottled white marble top above a pair of doors with geometric brass inlay inset with oval enamelled plaques of emblematic of the elements earth and water, flanked by applied enamel and gilt-bronze half column uprights, on plinth base with turned feet, the lock stamped Diehl Paris 19.R. Michel-Lecomte -- 64½in. (164cm.) wide.
Provenance
Charles-Guillaume Diehl, a cabinet maker of German extraction, is recorded successfully at 1621 and then 19, Rue Michel-Lecomte between 1853 and 1885. He specialised in furniture in the manner of Andre-Charles Boulle, a number of his items are in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. See Denise Ledoux-Lebard Le Mobilier Francais du XIXe siecle, 1984 edition pages 165-167.