12 - GROHE FRERES: A wooden and veneered sideboard, likely made of pear wood, featuring two side doors with glass panels, each revealing two shelves, three drawers along the base, and a central door adorned with a large gilded bronze medallion featuring a carved design at the bottom-relief of cherubs playing with doves in a rocky landscape, surmounted by a “Marie-Antoinette” knot and framed by a garland of flowers, the side panels feature fluted columns topped with Corinthian capitals, rich gilded and chiseled bronze ornamentation such as garlands of flowers, bows, small flowers, borders, rings, clogs, godron and heart-and-ray friezes, and beaded friezes; spindle-shaped legs; stamped on the back “Grohé Frères ébénistes à Paris”; topped with a white marble slab; 19th century; Dimensions With marble top: (slight chips, a few missing pieces, scratches, and chips on the marble).

GROHE FRERES: A wooden and veneered sideboard, likely made of pear wood, featuring two side doors with glass panels, each revealing two shelves, three drawers along the base, and a central door adorned with a large gilded bronze medallion featuring a carved design at the bottom-relief of cherubs playing with doves in a rocky landscape, surmounted by a “Marie-Antoinette” knot and framed by a garland of flowers, the side panels feature fluted columns topped with Corinthian capitals, rich gilded and chiseled bronze ornamentation such as garlands of flowers, bows, small flowers, borders, rings, clogs, godron and heart-and-ray friezes, and beaded friezes; spindle-shaped legs; stamped on the back “Grohé Frères ébénistes à Paris”; topped with a white marble slab; 19th century; Dimensions With marble top: (slight chips, a few missing pieces, scratches, and chips on the marble). * A similar model made by Grohé Frères was exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London, as seen in an engraving from 1863.