Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis Beurdeley French, 1847-1919 A Louis XVI style gilt bronze, steel, ebony, mother of pearl and lacquer table de toilette Paris, third quarter 19th century, after the model in the musée du Louvre

the spring released top middle section opening to reveal a mirror, fitted with three spring release drawers, several mounts have been removed to reveal the mark BY from the bronze master models

Camille Mestdagh, L'Ameublement d'Art Français: 1850-1900, Paris, 2010, p. 100, fig. 97 and p. 128, fig. 131 for models by Beurdeley.
Daniel Alcouffe et al., Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Vol. I, Dijon, 1993, p. 289-29, for the original by Weisweiler 

Gilt bronze with some surface dirt to crevices and oxidation. All top with restorations and inpainting. Some of the geometric inlay in the central panel with some minor losses. Applied japaned floral decorations and border with cracklure and wear to decoration. Central panel with some rubbing and minor losses, and some minor restorations. Steel with some oxidation and surface scratches. On far right panel, steel is cleaned. Whole piece slightly wobbly - recommend securing. Mirror with some minor imperfections and surface scratches.
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In 1784, Marie-Antoinette decorated the lavish cabinet intérieur at Château de Saint-Cloud with the inclusion of an intricately inlaid dressing table, from which the present example is a faithful recreation. She purchased the piece from her favored Parisian marchand-mercier, Daguerre, who in turn had commissioned it from the German-born ebeniste Adam Weisweiler (1744-1820). The dressing table, with its expensive lacquer and mounts of the highest quality, combined the opulence of Marie-Antoinette's style with the meticulous detail and skill of Weisweiler's cabinetmaking. Marie-Antoinette eventually gave the piece to her closest confidant and friend, Madame de Polignac. Forced into exile during the Revolution and criticized in public for her encouragement of the Queen's lavish spending, Madame de Polignac eventually sold the table, which ended up in a marchand's shop on the Quai Voltaire. It was purchased by the Prince de Beauvau (d. 1864) in 1840 and was then subsequently bought by the Empress Eugenie in an auction of the Prince's possessions a year after his death. It was given a place of honor in the salon bleu at the Tuileries and is now in the collection of the Musee du Louvre. 
Following the table's storied provenance, it is clear that the table's elegance was always valued and fashionable. Nineteenth century cabinetmakers were continually inspired by its enduring appeal to replicate its design, producing both exact copies and simplified versions. Maison Fourdinois replicated the table and exhibited it at the Exposition des arts du bois organised in 1882 by the Union centrale des Arts Décoratifs. 

Beurdeley, Louis-Auguste and Emmanuel-Alfred (1808-1882 and 1847-1919).  Specializing in reproductions of the most magnificent articles from the Garde Meuble National, the firm exhibited and won awards at all of the major international exhibitions during the second half of the nineteenth  century. The quality and skill employed in production was of exceptional quality; their ormolu mounts with mercurial gilding and hand chasing were often difficult to distinguish from late eighteenth-century examples, and were considered the finest in Paris. The firm was pioneered by Jean Beurdeley (1772-1853), later managed by his son Louis-Auguste-Alfred, and finally imparted to his son Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis in 1875. The firm was established at 32 and 34, rue Louis-Le-Grand, and also owned the pavillion de Hanovre, where it  was based while Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis added two additional workshops at 20 and 24, rue Dautancourt by 1875. The Beurdeley workshops closed in 1896, although still partially active until 1898 and the stock was sold over a number of auctions conducted by the Galerie Georges Petit of Paris. Two auction catalogues of the collection were published in 1895 and sales were held between March 6-8 and May 27-28. Among Beurdeley's most prestigious clients were Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie, the duc D'aumale, Richard Wallace, the Duc and Princess d'Hamilton, Tsarine Alexandra Féodorovna, The Rothschild and Vanderbilt dynasties and the Metropolitan Club, New York.