Small Louis XVI Table Stamped Schlichtig

A small table in exotic wood marquetry. Rectangular in shape, it rests on four sheathed feet ending in gilded bronze shoes. It opens with a large side drawer and a pull-tab trimmed with gilded green morocco with small irons and forming a writing desk on the front.
The belt is inlaid with quatrefoils in diamonds. The tray is surrounded by a gilded bronze ingot mold. It is inlaid with a Roman landscape of ancient ruins with an octagonal medallion in the middle of which there is an ivory bust of an emperor.

Stamped Schlichtig Jean Georges Schlichtig, Parisian cabinetmaker received Master on October 2, 1765

This table is illustrated on page 829 in the 2002 edition of Pierre Kjellberg's book: “French furniture of the 18th century”.

Louis XVI period