Blaise & Théodore Millet French, 1853-1918 A Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted kingwood parquetry table de salon Paris, late 19th century, after the model by Jean-Henri Riesener

inset with a vert de Suède marble top, gilt bronze band to top engraved Millet a Paris

Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIX Siècle, Les Éditions de l’Amateur, Paris, 2000, pp. 482-3

Gilt bronze with oxidation and surface dirt due to atmospheric conditions. Marble top with some minor abrasions to edges. Wood is slightly dry and could use to be polished. Small losses to veneer, largest being a one inch loss to one side.
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The present table de salon is a variation of the highly celebrated model, also called the "table des Muses", with an elaborate marquetry top representing mythological figures of Urania and Calliope, and their respective implements of astronomy and poetry. This original table was supplied in 1771 for King Louis XVI's garde meuble.  Made at a cost of 6,000 , it was commissioned by Pierre-Elisabeth de Fontanieu, Intendant et Contrôleur général des Meubles de la Couronnefrom 1767-83. The cabinet work was made by Jean-Henri Riesener, maître in 1768, fournisseur du Garde Meuble de la Couronne from 1774 to 1784. The original is now in the permanent collection of the Musée de Versailles (inv. T510c), on display at the Petit Trianon.