Object Description
A Fine Occasional Table
By Henry Dasson
Of rectangular form, constructed in mahogany dressed with finely cast and chased gilt bronze mounts; rising from ormolu mounted toupie feet, supporting the lower platform set with a brocatelle d’Espagne marble, the fluted and tapering legs having square form ormolu bases, with octagonal ormolu capitols; the lockable drawer centred by an ormolu shield escutcheon issuing foliate branches, the top set with a brocatelle d’Espagne marble within a three-quarter gilt bronze pierced gallery of running heart motif. Signed and dated ‘Henry Dasson 1881.’
French, dated 1881