Paris, Régence period, c. 1730
Stamped “FMD” (on the left front stile)
H. 86 cm (337/8 in.), W. 154.5 cm (6013/16 in.), D. 64.5 cm (253/8 in.)
Carcase: oak, walnut
Veneers: bois satiné, amaranth
Mounts: bronze, cast, chased, gilded
Top: reddish-brown, white-veined marble (campan mélangé)
Published:
Alexandre Pradère, French Furniture Makers. The Art of the Ébéniste from Louis XIV to the Revolution, London, 1989, p. 202.
For comparison:
Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, inv. no. 10055/3050 (published in Margrit Bauer, Peter Märker, and Annaliese Ohm, Europäische Möbel von der Gotik bis zum Jugendstil. Museum für Kunsthandwerk. Frankfurt am Main, 1976, p. 98, cat. no. 122).