Edouard Kreisser (1843-1863) is recorded as having established his firm at 30, rue Neuve-du-Luxembourg in 1843, moving to boulevard de la Madeleine and then moving to 52, rue Basse-du-Rampert in 1847 and finally relocating to 54, Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in 1862. He was certified by SAR la reine des Français, fournisseur des Princes et de la famille Royale. Kreisser exhibited in the Exposition de produits de l'industrie Français in 1844 and again at the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle. Queen Victoria, during a state visit to France in 1855 with the Prince Consort, purchased three items by Kreisser from the Exposition Universelle for her husband in the revived Louis XVI style. All of the Kreisser purchases presently belong to the Victoria and Albert Museum, with which the Prince Consort was closely associated. One of the pieces, a Louis XVI style ormolu and porcelain mounted bois-de-rose cabinet is stylistically related to the buffet à deux corps offered in this lot, specifically in the usage of identical ormolu female busts at the angles, a closely related ormolu frieze cast with frolicking putti, and the incorporation of Sèvres-style plaques within ribbon-tied ormolu medallions, and is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard Le Mobilier Français du XIXe Siècle, 1984, p. 395.

Cf. a bureau-de-dame stamped Kreisser, incorporating related Sèvres plaques within a similar ormolu medallion was sold Sotheby's London, 2 November 1990, lot 57 and a table de milieu attributed to Kreisser incorporating a similar ormolu bird of paradise finial was sold Sotheby's London, 1 March 1991, lot 123.