Ceremonial Table Marquetry Flowers, Birds, Dogs And Scrolls

spectacular marquetry work for this ceremonial table which can also be used as a desk.
The decor of the top, with a well-constructed composition of large scrolls and foliage scrolls, incorporates leaping dogs in the lower angles. In the center, a braided garland serves as a support for a wicker basket filled with flowers, around which birds twirl, the whole is capped at the top by an eagle with outstretched wings.
The legs, sheathed in shape, are also marked with falling flowers in reserves surrounded by light wood nets. They are connected to each other by an x-shaped spacer whose arms connect to a tray also decorated with a flower basket. The belt of this table, has a drawer, and is also fully inlaid. Work from the Rhine Valley, probably Dutch, towards the end of the 18th or the beginning of the 19th century. The woods used are mahogany, rosewood, maple and fruit woods, on an oak frame. Some checks and clogged cracks, witnesses of time are to be noted. The decor is made like a painting with shadows, these are obtained by carefully inserting the light woods whose edges must be browned, in hot sand. Beautiful patina.