Ormolu-Mounted Mahogany Center Table Signed Krieger

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Signed Krieger extremely fine ormolu-mounted mahogany center table, the dark green marble-top over rectangular frieze on four scrolled legs and … more Signed Krieger extremely fine ormolu-mounted mahogany center table, the dark green marble-top over rectangular frieze on four scrolled legs and two tapered twisted columns joined with stretcher and four ormolu hairy hoof feet.

Antoine Krieger (born in Alsace in 1804 and died in 1869), the German born Krieger arrived in Paris in 1826 with his son, setting up their enterprise originally in the Rue St Nicholas, moving in 1853 to the Rue St Antoine. The quality of their work won them a medal at the 1852 London Exhibition. They exhibited at the 1855 London Exhibition, where they showed, inter alia, a ‘piece of multiple purpose, but, very expensive’. less