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LARGE rectangular mirror with glazing beads and a curvilinea…
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230
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LARGE rectangular mirror with glazing beads and a curvilinea…
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
LARGE rectangular mirror with glazing beads and a curvilinear pediment (assembled) in Regency style, from the Napoleon III period, with a bevelled central mirror panel and a gilded wooden frame decorated with lambrequins and palmette spandrels
The openwork pediment is adorned with shells and floral rocaille motifs
150 x 87 cm
(The tin on one of the glazing beads is irregular)
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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