Louis XV Style Dressing Table With Floral Marquetry.circa 1880.

Lovely Louis XV Style Toilet-Hairdresser in a scalloped shape with fine marquetry decoration in the style of the French 18th century of foliaged acanthus scrolls with flowers and flower sheaves executed in end grain wood on a rosewood background. Resting on four curved legs joined by a spacer with a notch set with an openwork gallery, it opens on the front with two crossbar drawers, one revealing a writing desk cover covered in velvet completed by two small headboards. Topped with a molded breccia marble with corbin beak, it offers in the upper part, riveted to the frame, a pivoting beveled mirror inserted in a frame laced with a similar inlaid decoration and set with chiseled gilded bronzes with motifs of foliated scrolls of ancanthus and rockery shells. This ornamental repertoire is found on the trim of chiseled gilded bronzes (falls, frame moldings, cul-de-lampe and clogs) haloing the body of the small piece of furniture with a very feminine grace. Parisian cabinetmaking work from the second half of the 19th century. Circa 1880.