LATE 19TH CENTURY, STAMPED C. MELLIER & CO., MARGARET ST., LONDON

The firm of Charles Mellier & Co. of Margaret Street, London was known particularly for its fine reproductions of antique French furniture, advertising itself as 'specialists in the rich decorative styles of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' (J. Cooper, Victorian & Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, London, 1987, p. 24). Mellier & Co. took over the house of Monbro circa 1868 and were among the English manufacturers who exhibited at the 1904 St Louis International Exibition.