Furniture Height Support Signed Diehl, Napoleon III

Furniture with support height with central projection opening with a large leaf, it is inlaid with brass on a black pear tree background decorated with baskets, flowers and foliage, rich ornamentation of chiseled and gilded bronzes, built-in white marble tray, signed DIEHL PARIS 19 R MICHEL LE COMTE on the lock plate. Restored, buffed, very good condition. Charles-Guillaume DIEHL (1811-1885), cabinetmaker of German origin. Tabletier training, He began his cabinetmaking career in Paris in 1840 at 170 St. Martin Street. His shop is then at number 16 rue Michel Lecomte then number 21 and finally 19 of the same street. His workshops are located at 39 rue Saint Sebastien and develop a production of furniture, low cupboards, support furniture often of an unheard of luxury and which the Parisian and international clientele of the time craves. From 1878, he specialized in the creation of very studied and very learned Greek neo-Greek furniture and participated in the universal exhibitions of 1855, 1867, 1869 and 1878. He received the bronze medal at the exhibition of 1867, the medal of honor at the exhibition of the central union of 1869 and the medal of the progress in Vienna in 1873. The furniture of Charles-Guillaume DIEHL is distinguished by a particular care brought to the bronzes and are often stamped, more rarely dated.