Object Description
Large Regence Style Mahogany Centre Table with Marble Top
French, Late 19th Century
Height 82cm, width 176cm, depth 81cm
With an exceptionally intricate and ornate carved mahogany structure, this beautiful table, topped with grey and pink marble, was crafted in France in the late nineteenth century in the style of pieces of the French Régence period (1715-1723).
Of a large rectangular structure, the table features a highly elaborate, extensively carved decorative scheme in mahogany, with female busts to each corner, and a series of festoons and floral swags that extend along both the four facades and the length of the legs, which are joined by an x-stretcher near the base. This helps support the magnificent carpentry and the heavy marble surmount, which together give this piece is magnificent and evocative grandeur, demonstrating the height of late nineteenth French Belle Époque furniture making.