This table looks like an invitation to have tea with its designer, Édouard Lièvre, and Barbedienne, the bronze founder who cast it.
Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) after Édouard Lièvre (1828-1886), c. 1880, bronze tea table with a dark patina featuring gold highlights and decoration imitating bamboo and dragons, cloisonné enamel top decorated with Jiaqing period flowers, 89 x 87 x 56 cm/35.04 x 34.25 x 22.04 in.
Result: €37,800
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