Side Table with French Ormolu Mounts and Cabriolet Legs

Bowed-edge table in glossy red-brown, wearing gold feet like fancy shoes.

This side table with French ormolu mounts and cabriolet legs is from France, and dates to the 20th century. It is hardwood. The cabriolet leg curves outward at the knee and inward toward the foot, a graceful profile that became widespread in French furniture of the eighteenth century. Low writing table with a shaped top edged in a thin gold band, a curving apron and four slender cabriole legs. Gilded mounts decorate the knees and feet, and the surface is polished red-brown with a pale inlaid border. It is 31 inches long, 21.5 deep and 22.5 high.

Curves in every direction, and no sharp corners anywhere.