US$1,573.27 This is a gorgeous pair of ebonised red Boulle occasional tables with ormolu decoration. These elegant tables will instantly enhance the style of any room in your home and are sure to receive the maximum amount of attention wherever they are placed. These stunning tables are very versatile, each has a useful drawer, and can be used as beside tables, coffee tables or end tables. Condition: In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation of condition. Dimensions in cm: Height 79 x Width 56 x Depth 40 Dimensions in inches: Height 2 feet, 7 inches x Width 1 foot, 10 inches x Depth 1 foot, 4 inches André-Charles Boulle (1642 – 1732), was the French cabinetmaker who is generally considered to be the preeminent artist in the field of marquetry. His fame in marquetry led to his name being given to a fashion of inlaying brass and tortoishell, known as Boulle (or in 19th-century Britain, Buhl work). Boulle appears to have been originally a painter, since the first payment to him by the crown of which there is any record (1669) specifies ouvrages de peinture. He was employed for many years at Versailles, where the mirrored walls, the floors of wood mosaic, the inlaid paneling and the marquetery furniture in the Cabinet du Dauphin were regarded as his most remarkable work. These rooms were long since dismantled and their contents dispersed, but Boulle's drawings for the work are in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. His royal commissions were numerous, as we learn both from the Comptes des B timents du Roi and from the correspondence of Louvois. Not only the most magnificent of French monarchs, but foreign princes and the great nobles and financiers of his own country crowded to him with commissions, and the mot of the...