Louis XV Table de Toilette (wood & gilded bronze)

By Jean Francois Oeben In satin veneer, rosewood, amaranth, holly, hornbeam, tobacco wood and green stained wood, in the shape of a heart, the top inlaid with a bouquet of flowers lifting revealing a mirror on the reverse and a tablet with a motif of scales, opening in the upper part with a drawer, two inlaid drawers decorated with scales operated by a system presenting a arrangement covered in green leather containing two boxes with silver lids and a drawer presenting compartments which can accommodate an inkwell and an hourglass , the body of the piece of furniture decorated with cube marquetry opening through a door concealing two mahogany drawers.