A GEORGE IV BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD SIDE TABLE

This elegant table typifies the revived taste for Boulle furniture among English connoisseur of the 1820's as popularized by such influential collectors as the Prince Regent, later George IV. This type of decoration is often associated with the oeuvre of Louis le Gaigneur, a French immigrant cabinet-maker who enjoyed the patronage of the Prince of Wales for whom he supplied two library tables now at Windsor Castle. Le Gaigneur established his 'buhl' manufactury at 19 Queen Street, Edgware Road, by 1815 and served as one of a few firms who revived brass-inlaid patterns reminiscent of the ancien regime.