Pedestal Table In Bronze And Onyx Transition Style

Double-top pedestal table in the style of Adam Weisweiler*. In gilt bronze and onyx transition style Circa 1880. Headband in brown lacquered sheet metal, adorned with a frieze. Resting on 4 bronze feet ending in claw feet and joined by a crotch shelf. The onyx trays are surrounded by an openwork gallery. Very good condition *Adam Weisweiler (Rhineland, 1744-1820), master cabinetmaker in Paris in 1778, established in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, had made a specialty of small refined pieces of furniture, with fine and nervous lines, often decorated with lacquers and of porcelain: pedestal tables, work tables, happiness of the day, consoles... He became the supplier of the Court of France, of Marie-Caroline of Austria, queen consort of Naples, of Maria Feodorovna, daughter-in-law of Catherine II, as well than the high French or English aristocracy. He also worked under the Empire.