EMPIRE STYLE TABLE CENTREPIECE Assembled as a coffee table In chased and gilded bronze, the mirrored top decorated on all sides with a frieze of allegorical masks and lyres amid foliage, the spandrels adorned with masks of Mercury, supported by a mahogany and mahogany veneer base, the sheathed uprights joined by a crotch shelf and terminating in bronze claw feet. H. 77.5 cm (30 ½ in.) l. 59 cm (23 ¼ in.) P. 59 cm (23 ¼ in.) An Empire style gilt-bronze surtout de table, on a gilt-bronze mounted and mahogany stand forming occasional table