Napoleon III Center Table Attributed To Charles Guillaume Diehl

Beautiful Napoleon III period center table - Louis XVI style, richly inlaid with different native woods on blackened wood. (Lemon tree, walnut burl, walnut, green stained wood...) The top has a varied decoration: musical instruments in the middle, birds, butterflies, foliage, acanthus leaves, surrounded by a brass frieze, It opens with a large central drawer with marquetry decoration, And rests on fluted tapered legs with bronze ring, connected by a moving spacer topped with a gilt bronze cassolette in the middle, The cassolette has a ram's head decoration on each side and a torch, Old-fashioned stamp varnish. About Charles-Guillaume Diehl, born July 28, 1811 in Steinbach (Länder of Hesse in Germany) and died June 20, 1885 in Chessy (Seine-et-Marne), was a cabinetmaker, specializing in the creation of small pieces of furniture. He was naturalized French in 1872. He settled in Paris in 1840. He is listed in 1850 as a table maker.