Pedestal Style Transition In Bronze And Onyx Circa 1880

Double oval shaped pedestal table in the style of Adam Weisweiler In gilded bronze and onyx transition style Circa 1880 Headband in varnished walnut colored sheet, decorated with a frieze Resting on 4 bronze feet ending with claw feet and joined by a tablet of crotch shape kidney The onyx trays are surrounded by a gallery openwork In very good condition * Adam Weisweiler (Rhineland, 1744-1820), master cabinetmaker in Paris in 1778, established in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, had made a specialty refined little furniture, with fine and nervous lines, often adorned with lacquers and porcelains: pedestal tables, tables with books, 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, and of the high French or English aristocracy. He also worked under the Empire.