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Beautiful Napoleon III period middle table - Louis XVI style, richly inlaid with various native woods on blackened wood. (Lemon, burr walnut, walnut, green-stained wood,
The top is decorated with a variety of musical instruments, birds, butterflies, foliage, acanthus leaves and a brass frieze.
It opens with a large central drawer decorated with marquetry,
And stands on fluted tapered legs with bronze rings, linked by a curved brace topped by a gilt-bronze cassolette in the middle,
The cassolette is decorated with a ram's head on each side and a torch,
Varnished with an old-fashioned stamp.
About Charles-Guillaume Diehl, born July 28, 1811 in Steinbach (Hesse, Germany) and died June 20, 1885 in Chessy (Seine-et-Marne, France), was a cabinetmaker specializing in the creation of small pieces of furniture. He became a naturalized French citizen in 1872.
He settled in Paris in 1840. He is listed as a table maker in 1850.
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