Side table - Marquetry - Mahogany, Brass - Exposure registration






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Louis XV style marquetry table in mahogany and brass, French origin, circa 1900, in good used condition with minor signs of aging, dimensions 80 cm high, 61 cm wide, 46 cm deep.
Description from the seller
It is a luxurious 19th-century high table, fully in the Louis XV style, and the first thing it conveys is that blend of curvilinear grace and contained opulence that defined French taste reinterpreted in European workshops of the period. The silhouette is sinuous, feminine, almost dancing: the top carved in a serpentine shape, cabriole legs descending with an elegant gesture and gilded finishes that accentuate each curve as if they were strokes of light.
The deep, reddish mahogany wood provides that warm shine that only noble woods when well polished can give. On it, the details in gilded brass —appliques, corner pieces, sabots— function like jewelry: small accents that emphasize the line of the furniture and elevate it to the category of decorative piece, not just functional. That gold recalls French bronze, but with the lightness of hand-worked brass, typical of workshops that produced luxury furniture for bourgeois salons and aristocratic residences.
The table preserves all the essential traits of Louis XV:
• Asymmetric curves that soften the structure.
• Cabriole legs that contribute visual lightness.
• Applied gilded decoration as an accent, never as excess.
• Noble woods that speak of status and refinement.
It is a piece designed for an elegant living room, a study, or a corner for conversation, where its presence does not go unnoticed but it does not intrude: it seduces with the curve, with the shine, with harmony.
Certified shipping and good packaging.
Seller's Story
It is a luxurious 19th-century high table, fully in the Louis XV style, and the first thing it conveys is that blend of curvilinear grace and contained opulence that defined French taste reinterpreted in European workshops of the period. The silhouette is sinuous, feminine, almost dancing: the top carved in a serpentine shape, cabriole legs descending with an elegant gesture and gilded finishes that accentuate each curve as if they were strokes of light.
The deep, reddish mahogany wood provides that warm shine that only noble woods when well polished can give. On it, the details in gilded brass —appliques, corner pieces, sabots— function like jewelry: small accents that emphasize the line of the furniture and elevate it to the category of decorative piece, not just functional. That gold recalls French bronze, but with the lightness of hand-worked brass, typical of workshops that produced luxury furniture for bourgeois salons and aristocratic residences.
The table preserves all the essential traits of Louis XV:
• Asymmetric curves that soften the structure.
• Cabriole legs that contribute visual lightness.
• Applied gilded decoration as an accent, never as excess.
• Noble woods that speak of status and refinement.
It is a piece designed for an elegant living room, a study, or a corner for conversation, where its presence does not go unnoticed but it does not intrude: it seduces with the curve, with the shine, with harmony.
Certified shipping and good packaging.
