A French kingwood marquetry and parquetry centre table

in Louis XVI style, after Adam Weisweiler ( 1744-1820), with applied gilt-bronze mounts, the top with a three quarter gallery above a drawer, on supports in the form of caryatids, joined by a pierced shaped undertier ornamented with a basket, on toupie feet

Generally in good condition. The top has a stain to the marquetry. The centre panel is loose and seems to be associated witht he table as it does not fit exactly. Other old marks and scratches
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Then present table is based on an original model by Adam Weisweiler supplied by him to the marchand-mercier Daguerre in 1784 for Marie-Antoinette`s cabinet interior at the Château de Saint- Cloud. This table was copied by various 19th century makers faithfully reproducing the finesse of the gilt-bronzes. Empress Eugenie in 1865 acquired the original table from the Prince de Beauvau ( d.1864) and placed it in the salon bleu in the Tuileries where she gave audiences. The table is now in the Musée du Louvre and illustrated by D. Alcouffe, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Vol. 1, Dijon, 1993, p.289. The mounts on the original table were chased and gilded by the doreur François Rémond. A related 19th century version of this table, by Alfred Beurdeley, with slight variations was sold Christie's, London, October 29th, 1998, lot 151 ( £60,000). Another, by the same cabinet-maker, sold Sotheby`s London, June 8th, 2005, lot 77 ( £96,000).