Traditional Motifs Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann: dressing table.
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Its design is based on an early nineteenth-century form of a dressing-table with a pivoting mirror and lyre-shaped base.
The techniques used to make this table continue traditional cabinet-making techniques of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However here Ruhlmann replaces the two rear legs with a classical vase shape which raises from a domed base.
He also modernised the marquetry inlay decoration by combining ebony with ivory to create a striking contrast.
