A Louis XVI Style Giltwood Console Table by E.-Guilaume-Edmond Lexcellent, Paris, after the model in the Petit Trianon, Late 19th Century

This table is a replica of a console attributed to the sculptor and woodcarver Honoré Jean Guibert (1720-1791) supplied to the newly constructed Petit Trianon at Versailles in the 1760s and subsequently in the personal collection of Marie-Antoinette. Like the other royal furniture the table was sold during the Revolution, and re-acquired by the Imperial Garde-Meuble during the Second Empire in 1855 and later formed part of Empress Eugénie's exposition rétrospective dedicated to the memory of Marie-Antoinette held at the Petit Trianon, where the table has remained since in the antichambre.

E.-Guillaume-Edmond Lexcellent (b.1834) ran a thriving workshop and furniture showroom in Paris in the second half of the nineteenth century, producing meubles de luxe de divers styles including reproductions of 18th century works. He is recorded at 46 rue de Charenton in 1867, and then at 8 rue Bréguet. He participated in the Expositions Universelles of 1855, 1867 and 1889.