Louis Philippe style toilette

mahogany, birch, marble, mirrored panel; 196 x 106 x 57.5 cm.
Central Europe, 2nd half of the 19th century.
On a three-drawer chest of drawers with straight sides, chamfered front corners and a wavy front, with a marble top with an outline analogous to the form of the body (a crack in the middle) and a pull-out rectangular pedestal underneath, with a settee with wavy sides and front, with two drawers and an oval tilting mirror suspended between decorative carved supports. The corners of the body of the chest of drawers decorated at the top and bottom with volutes, and profiled in the middle. The chest of drawers is supported at the front on volute legs, and at the back on granular legs. Mirror with an elongated form, in a narrow, profiled frame topped with a raised openwork decoration with florets. Mirror supports constructed of volutes and leaves. On the faces of the drawers of the settee carved elongated appliqués. Key signs of the drawers of the chest of drawers round, turned. The faces of the drawers are covered with wide bordure, inside glued with veneer.
Typical Louisiana dressing table, however, rarely found on the antiquarian market today. Of elaborate form, slender, decorated with carved, nicely shaped ornaments.