A fine quality 19th Century French Plum pudding Mahogany, brass inlaid centre table, having four hinged compartments to the frieze, gilded ormolu mouldings, a single frieze drawer to the centre,and a pair of cornucopia mounts to the central panel on either side, raised on turned tapering fluted legs, united by a wonderful brass inlaid scrolling stretcher below and raised on tooled ormolu feet.
Signed; A. Beurdeley
Alfred Beurdeley, 1847-1919
Emmanuel-Alfred Beurdeley was a collector who came from a family of cabinetmakers, antique dealers and collectors. He was the illegitimate son of Louis-Auguste-Alfred Beurdeley (1808–82). His grandfather, Jean Beurdeley (1772–1853), who served in Napoleon's army, opened a small antique shop in the Marais district of Paris. In 1830 he bought the Pavillon de Hanovre, 28 Boulevard des Italiens, which became the Beurdeley firm's principal gallery until 1894. L.-A.-A. Beurdeley dealt in antiques and works of art and was also a cabinetmaker specializing in reproductions of seventeenth and eighteenth century furniture. His clients included Napoleon III and the Empress Eugénie.
Batch 82 56942 CEKZZ