Said Tray Table

Louis XV table with a "cabaret" top in amaranth wood for the base and Ferréol wood for the top and crosspieces. It opens with a large front drawer which has its original turned wooden knob, it slides on a dovetail fixed under the top. It rests on four largely curved legs starting from the intersection with the crossbars, a small sausage underlines the stops and comes to be rolled up in volute, the base of the foot of a great lightness rests on a hoof in crowbar. The tray with rounded angles is made up of two symmetrical and scalloped boards to form a so-called "cabaret" tray, it is fixed to the belt by ankles. A very small old restoration on one end of the rear leg. Beautiful port work, probably from La Rochelle or Rochefort sur mer, executed in exhotic woods imported from Guyana or Brazil in the second half of the 18th century and made for the pleasure of a shipowner. Ref: Furniture from Port Rochelais, Florence and Dominique Chaussat, Editions être et Connaître.