Help Identifying Furniture Maker Signature

I have a small ornate table with drawers. There is a signature inside one drawer. Can anyone help identify the furniture maker based on the signature?
Thanks in advance.

 

Hi, Tim! Are you having trouble posting photographs? If so, someone will be along shortly with instructions.

Debora

 

I think to start we'd need an image of the table, showing it from several angles, including the underside plus the drawers, both open and closed, where it came from, and any history you may know about it! WELCOME to ANTIQUERS, @Tim555!! In case you're not familiar with posting on our site, here's some general information to help........

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Nearly forgot!!!! Here's your image: Looks like French to me, but others
will be along to help..........

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Le Petit....?

And u think that's somehow related to the furniture maker...?

 

The little boy? No idea how that would relate to furniture.

 

Petit is also a surname, but as far as I know 'le petit' usually refers to something small.

The little or small one. The little boy is 'le petit garçon'.

 

Would/could you post photographs of the piece itself?

Debora

 

Thanks for all of your help for this rookie. Here are a couple of photos

 

Gorgeous little piece. Historic Revival, late 19th-early 20th century, imo, but let's wait for the others.

 

That is really something.

Debora

 

While I'm not going to be much help, I'll ask the question in case it helps someone else.

You say it is small. How small is small?

 

"c'est le petit", it is the little one. Maybe there was a bigger one too.

 

Quite the piece. Guess it would be a sewing stand. I am thinking sometime the last quarter of the 19th century and, indeed, a revival piece of sorts. Wood looks like it could be elm.

 

Small size, big design. I agree that it's some sort of sewing cabinet, but it could be used now to hold whatever you can fit into the drawers. Great to corral chargers and remotes and such.

Petit is actually a fairly common surname here; a pile of French Canadians exported themselves to Connecticut years ago.

 

it's 29"H and the top is 16"L x 26"W

 

Same here. For instance, our local bell foundry is Petit & Fritsen, known worldwide as excellent bell makers since 1660.

 

Y'all got some French exports too then. (or maybe just one guy who had a bunch of kids!)

 

We've got a lot, including some of my ancestors.

Most French immigrants came during the early days of the Republic, the 16th-17th century, when half of Europe flocked to the Netherlands (half is a slight exaggeration). They came either as religious refugees (Huguenots), or for financial reasons. Most VOC (Dutch East India Company) employees were non-Dutch, for instance.
And France had many skilled craftspeople, but not always enough work. The Dutch Republic was filthy rich, and they needed people who could do a good job.
The Dutch Republic also had religious freedom (of sorts).

Over 90% of present day Dutch has some degree of foreign ancestry. I seem to remember it is 96%, but that is only taking into account records after 1600. If you go back far enough we are all immigrants.

 

Kind of like Americans (mostly), only earlier.

 

Yes, a similar influx of people, often for the same reasons as in North America.