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PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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MAISON ALPHONSE GIROUX & Cie – Napoleon III-era tabletop pla…
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227
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MAISON ALPHONSE GIROUX & Cie – Napoleon III-era tabletop pla…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
MAISON ALPHONSE GIROUX & Cie – Napoleon III-era tabletop planter with an undulating shape, crafted from oak veneer and moulded oak, featuring rich ornamentation in metal formerly silver-plated, such as beaded mouldings, floral cartouches, ribboned garlands of flowers, a pair of birds and ram’s-horn scrolls, and a bas-relief inscribed ‘Sciences, wisdom, arts’
Green lacquered zinc lining
Base with arched feet
Printed label beneath the base
18.5 x 46 x 33 cm
(minor losses of veneer and a pearl moulding)
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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