Elaborate Louis XVI-style center table veneered in lemon tree wood and rosewood, with reeded, tapering legs, ornamented with light blue jasper plaques with white relief depicting cupids at play and mercury-gilded bronze mounts, with interlaced stretchers with center urn topped with berry finial, and tooled leather surface

Center Table

Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen, Wedgwood

About 1865

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