This carved and gilded beechwood pier table is of the French Empire style and was manufactured by Pierre-Antoine Bellange of Paris. This table is the only piece of the 53-piece Bellange suite purchased by President James Monroe that has always remained in the White House.

This gilded metal and glass light standard was modeled after a French Empire candelabrum with Egyptian motifs on the base. Several were made for the East Room in 1902 where they remain.

This gilded cherry armchair and painted birch side chair were copied from a French Empire suite in the Chateau de Compiegne outside Paris. They were commissioned from L. Marcotte and Co. of New York, a decorating firm that executed all of the interior decoration of the Blue Room in 1902.

This carved and gilded beechwood pier table is of the French Empire style and was manufactured by Pierre-Antoine Bellange of Paris. This table is the only piece of the Bellange suite that has always remained in the White House, and it is photographed here in the Entrance Hall with the gilded bronze clock with Minerva.

This is a French Empire pier table attributed to acclaimed Parisian furniture maker François Honoré Georges Jacob and owned by Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, who emigrated to the United States. This pier table was on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art when it was photographed by Bates Littlehales in 1962, during the John F. Kennedy administration.

This is a French Empire pier table attributed to acclaimed Parisian furniture maker François Honoré Georges Jacob and owned by Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, who emigrated to the United States. This pier table was on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art when it was photographed by Bates Littlehales in 1962, during the John F. Kennedy administration.

This is a French Empire pier table attributed to acclaimed Parisian furniture maker François Honoré Georges Jacob and owned by Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, who emigrated to the United States. This pier table was on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art when it was photographed by Bates Littlehales in 1962, during the John F. Kennedy administration.

This is a French Empire pier table attributed to acclaimed Parisian furniture maker François Honoré Georges Jacob and owned by Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, who emigrated to the United States. This pier table was on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art when it was photographed by Bates Littlehales in 1962, during the John F. Kennedy administration.

This is a French Empire pier table attributed to acclaimed Parisian furniture maker François Honoré Georges Jacob and owned by Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, who emigrated to the United States. This pier table was on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art when it was photographed by Bates Littlehales in 1962, during the John F. Kennedy administration.

This is a French Empire pier table attributed to acclaimed Parisian furniture maker François Honoré Georges Jacob and owned by Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, who emigrated to the United States. This pier table was on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art when it was photographed by Bates Littlehales in 1962, during the John F. Kennedy administration.

These vases, attributed to Pierre-Louis Dagoty of Paris, were purchased for the Red Room. One shows a seaside scene with Homer, and the other shows a landscape with Byzantine general Belisarius. The swans on the handles are often seen on French Empire objects. This firm also produced a dinner and dessert service for the President's House in 1817.

This Empire period music stand was made around 1830, during Andrew Jackson's presidency. The sheet music that appears on the stand is entitled "Lafayette's March," a song composed in honor of the French military leader's 1824-1825 tour of the United States. This photograph is credited to James E. Russell.