Side Table, Japanese-style Worker In The Style Of Viardot

19th century carved center table, in fruit wood in the Japanese style of the end of the 19th century, very good quality of sculpture, probably foreign work, minimal accidents in the ...

English table with tilting top, edged with brass fillet and spandrel engraved with a crowned B. Good house condition. Minor lack of materials noted and small detachment of fillets. P...

large game table in carved and whitewashed wood, topped with its superb Medici breccia marble, made in the suburbs, late 19th, early 20th century, very good condition, very thick mar...

Pedestal table marked with the famous Parisian nightclub Le Whisky a Go Go. White lacquered cast iron base, stainless steel and glass top. In good condition, with scratches from use ...

Beautiful "Japonisme" writing table opening with a belt drawer with engraved decoration of bamboo and flowers and decorated with openwork leafy friezes in bronze, forming a writing tablet covered in velvet. It rests on four feet mounted at the corners of lion masks in gilded bronze and joined by an openwork spacer, and ending in lion paws. It is topped with a molded Griotte marble. Biography : Gabriel Viardot (1830-1906) career began as a wood carver and he produced small furniture, sculpturally carved with naturalistic motifs and animals. In the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris, his finely sculpted objects were well received. However, with the increasing importation of similarly produced Swiss and German articles, he found less opportunity for these and decided to inovate. G. Viardot succeded to his father’s business in 1861 installed rue Rambuteau in Paris. Around 1870 he turned to the idea of producing « Meubles genre Chinois et Japonais ». The taste in Europe for exotic furniture...

A 19th century French Japonisme Aesthetic Movement side table. Sturdy bamboo frame with open work bamboo stretcher and slightly curved root end feet. Top is made from a Japanese marq...

Bamboo side table in Japanese style with 2 trays. The trays, in 2 sizes, are decorated in Japanese lacquer, with flowers and births.

Charming Japanese-inspired « pagoda » table in tinted and carved wood attributed to G. Viardot. The rectangular top rests on four slightly curved legs adorned with openwork and sculpted geometric interlacing, joined by an engraved stretcher with a stylized cutout. Gabriel Viardot career began as a wood carver and he produced small furniture, sculpturally carved with naturalistic motifs and animals. In the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris, his finely sculpted objects were well received. However, with the increasing importation of similarly produced Swiss and German articles, he found less opportunity for these and decided to innovate. G. Viardot succeeded to his father's business in 1861 installed rue Rambuteau in Paris. Around 1870 he turned to the idea of producing « Meubles genre Chinois et Japonais ». The taste in Europe for exotic furniture, incorporating sometimes authentic Chinese or Japanese objects...