This elegant console-desserte has a D-shaped grey-veined white marble top above a frieze containing three drawers mounted with alternating pierced band of gilt-bronze bell-flowers and lunettes, the backboard with lozenges, on square tapering legs joined by a marble shelf with a pierced gilt-bronze gallery terminating in tapering block feet with gilt-bronze foliate sabots.
This piece demonstrates Riesener in transition from the elaborate pictorial marquetry of his early career to the sober plain veneers of his later years.
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