Small ladies' desk, so-called Bonheur Du Jour

A sabot is an edging for furniture legs. It is usually made of precious metal and protects the wood in the lowest part of the leg. The word sabot comes from the French and can best be translated as hoof or shoe.

Especially during the Baroque and Rococo periods, rosewood was popular at the French court. We are talking here about the Louis XIV and Louis XV eras.

Marquetry is the term used to describe a picture made up of individual pieces of veneer. These can be figurative pictures or ornamental ones, such as the bandelwerk from the Baroque period.

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