Louis XV Transition Period Dressing Table In Marquetry, 18th Century Parisian Work.

Dressing table in rosewood veneer, mahogany, satinwood, in fine marquetry of green-tinted boxwood music trophy.

The form of the furniture is still truly Louis XV, but the "à l'antique" stylestyle that prefigures the Louis XVI style appears on the marquetry motifsmarquetry (green-stained Greek wood fillets and rosettes). NiceTransitional Louis XV - Louis XVI period, circa 1760-70. This is thethe work of a great 18th-century Parisian cabinetmaker, but ourdressing table is not stamped.

Provenance: Château de Villiers le Bâcle

It opens with 3 flaps revealing:
- in the center, a tilting mirror (mercury)
- a locker on the right, below which is a slim, full-width drawer with an inkwell
.- a deep locker on the left,
- finally, the central drawer conceals a leather-lined writing case leather: still in the eighteenth century, well-madefurniture incorporated a writing pad for writing notes that wereto write bills that were exchanged several times a day.

So, our dressing table has all the makings of a classic.Our dressing table has all the characteristics of a piece of furniture of the highestfine marquetry, chased and gilded bronze trim, writing drawerwriting drawer, plated on all sides to be placed in the center of a roomto be placed in the center of a room and visible from all sides.

The dressing table was an essential piece of furniture in a lady's bedroom in the 18th century.room in the 18th century: it was used for grooming, to store secret and preciousto store secret and precious objects, to write correspondencefor writing correspondence, and for setting the scene when a visitor comes to theroom. Our piece of furniture is a truly beautiful model of its kind.

Our dressing table is in good home condition, varnished with an antique stamprevived by our cabinetmaker, very fresh colors without insolation,a few traces of old veneer, clean mercury mirror glass.mercury.

Length : 79,3cm
Depth : 45,8cm
Height: 75.7cm