Joseph-Émmanuel Zwiener fl. circa 1875-1900 A gilt-bronze mounted kingwood and satiné bedside cabinet Paris, circa 1895-1900

surmounted by a brèche violette marble top, the sides and back with heart-shaped satiné parquetry, the front door opening to a white marble inlaid interior and with a similar parquetry outlined with foliate gilt-bronze encadrements, one chute as been removed to reveal the mark Z from the bronze master model, stencil stamped number 2817 to the underside.

See H. Kriesel, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels, Möbel und Vertäfelungen des deutschen Sprachraums von den Anfägen bis zum Jugendstil, C.H. Beck, München, 1973, pl. 908 for a contemporary photograph showing the Wilhelm II bedroom suite taken circa 1904 at Schloss Charloteenburg illustrating the same model of bedside cabinet. 

Overall in good condition with the usual minor scratches, dents and nicks consistent with age and use. Slight tarnishing to gilt-bronze in places. One corner of the marble top has been broken off.
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In 1895, Zwiener was summoned to Berlin at the request of German emperor Wilhelm II (1859-1941) at Schloss Neues Palais, Sans Souci, Potsdam.  Among the works the Kaiser would commission was a gilt-bronze mounted tulipwood marquetry kingwood bedroom suite, circa 1895, comprising bedside cabinets similar to the present model.