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PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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PAIR OF Empire-period vases with bevelled sides, made of pai…
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191
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PAIR OF Empire-period vases with bevelled sides, made of pai…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
PAIR OF Empire-period vases with bevelled sides, made of painted sheet metal and decorated in gold with cupids, quivers and arrows, oak branches and acanthus leaves on a red background
Four claw feet on a square plinth lacquered to imitate marble
H. 27.5 cm
(signs of wear and missing sections)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his property in the Var, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
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