attributed to Charles-Guillaume Diehl 1811- circa 1885 A NAPOLÉON III GILT AND PATINATED BRONZE MOUNTED BURR AMBONYA AND EBONIZED JARDINIÈRE Paris, circa 1870s

surmounted by a gilt bronze female figure, the six-lobed top inset with three planters interspaced with gilt bronze grasshoppers, the frieze mounted with three porcelain plaques.

Overall in fair condition. The liner of the jardiniere is extensivle oxidized. Overall in good and fair condition with the usual minor scratches, dents and nicks to veneers and carcass consistent with age and use. Tarnishing, dirt and wear to gilt bronze in places. No restoration to ceramic plaques.
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Charles-Guillaume Diehl (1811-circa 1885) was a German cabinetmaker who worked in Paris from 1840s onwards.  Diehl is known for his Napoleon III style designs for furniture and decorations that often incorporated the revival and orientalist fashions of the period.  This table is a hybrid of the Napoleon III style of the middle decades of the nineteenth century and the Japonisme of the 1870s.