Attributed to Léon Marcotte (French, 1824-1891) Library table in wood and blackened wood veneer, opening with a drawer in the waist. The rectangular top with rounded sides is upholstered in blue felt and surrounded by a pewter fillet and a corbin-bill moulding. The belt is decorated with pewter fillets, lapis lazuli, two repoussé brass plates with antique scenes and a laurel frieze. It rests on four column shafts with Corinthian capitals in chased ormolu, and ends in spinner feet. The X-shaped brace features a gadrooned vase topped by a pine cone. Napoleon III period. Height: 70 Length: 131 Width: 75 cm. (accidents, missing parts and restorations) Attributed to Léon Marcotte, Napoleon III Period. A blackened veneer wood library table with pewter, lapis-lazuli, brass and bronze ornaments. Related work: library table by Léon Marcotte, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (no. 34.140.1). Bibliography: Denise Ledoux-Lebard, "Le mobilier français du XIXe siècle", Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2000, for a similar model reproduced on p. 470. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Paris, Léon Marcotte moved to New York, where he worked as an architect. In 1849, he joined forces with his brother-in-law Auguste-Emile Leprince-Ringuet, the son of an upholsterer and cabinetmaker, to open two cabinetmaking workshops in Paris and New York. There, he developed a style known as "American-Ringuet". In 1860, he dissolved his partnership and set up his own business in New York, where he quickly became the most prominent decorator.