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SMALL TABLE, SO-CALLED TABLE À OUVRAGE WITH MUSIC ACCESSORIES STYLE NAPOLEON III. - DIEHL , CHARLES GUILLAUME Paris Title: SMALL TABLE, SO-CALLED TABLE À OUVRAGE WITH MUSIC ACCESSORIES STYLE NAPOLEON III. . Date: Ca. 1870. Material: Ebony, amaranth, lemonwood and other fruit woods, veneered. Fire-gilded bronze. Measurement: 72.5 x 68 x 40 cm. Mark: Signed on the lock: ‘Diehl A Paris 19 r. Michel le Comte’. Description: Elongated, rectangular shape with rounded sides. Fine marquetry with musical motifs on the top. The wide frame with one drawer. The top hinged and underneath not only the drawer, but also two covered side compartments and two small square shelves. Large oval mirror fitted into the lid. The four conical legs are fluted and have a connecting cross crowned with vases . Diehl, who came from Steinbach, settled in Paris in 1840. He set up a large studio at 39 Rue Saint-Sébastien, where he employed no fewer than six hundred craftsmen around 1870. Diehl took part in all the major international exhibitions in the mid-19th century, starting with the Universal Exhibition of 1851. Various works by Diehl can be found in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, Nancy and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Please note that this item has been made using materials protected under international conventions. In accordance with CITES regulations, this item cannot be exported from the EU. Condition: Key inculded. Provenance: - Private collection Rhineland-Palatinate. Estimated shipping costs for this lot: The lot is unsuitable for parcel shipping. Transport only by shipping company after consultation following the auction. additional shipping insurance Shipping insurance up to total invoice amount of 25,000 Euros: max. 41.65 Euro over a total invoice amount of 25,000 Euros: 1.8 o/oo USA by individual arrangement after the auction. #Charles Guillaume Diehl #France #Furniture.