Object Description
This is an exquisite and wonderful quality antique Edwardian mahogany heart-shaped bijouterie table, circa 1890 in date.
This attractive bijouterie table features a delightful glazed top with glazed sides and its sophisticated tan velvet lining ready to display your most precious items.
The exquisite table is inlaid with stringing and the top inlaid with wonderful entwined foliate scrollwork, it is raised on tapered cabriole legs with triform stretchers.
It comes with its original working lock, key and tassel.
Add a touch of unparalleled elegance to a special room in your home.
Conditions:
In excellent condition having being cleaned, waxed and polished in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 75 x Width 45 x Depth 51
Dimensions in inches:
Height 2 foot, 5 inches x Width 1 foot, 6 inches x Depth 1 foot, 8 inches
Bijouterie tables were designed to store and display a collection of small valuable items, they are also called table vitrines, display tables and curio tables.
Mahogany
is probably one of the largest ‘families’ of hardwood, having many different varieties within its own species.
Mahogany has been used for centuries in ship building, house building, furniture making etc and is the core structure of just about every 19th century vanity box, dressing case or jewellery box. It became more of a Victorian trend to dress Mahogany with these decorative veneers, such as Burr Walnut and Coromandel, so that the actual Mahogany was almost hidden from view.
Mahogany itself is a rich reddish brown wood that can range from being plain in appearance to something that is so vibrant, figured and almost three dimensional in effect.
Although Mahogany was most often used in its solid form, it also provided some beautifully figured varieties of veneer like ‘Flame’ Mahogany and ‘Fiddleback’ Mahogany (named after its preferred use in the manufacture of fine musical instruments).
Cuban Mahogany was so sought after, that by the late 1850′s, this particular variety became all but extinct.
Our reference: A3418