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PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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SMALL, FLAT DESK SERVING AS A DRESSING TABLE AND HANDICRAFT …
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233
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SMALL, FLAT DESK SERVING AS A DRESSING TABLE AND HANDICRAFT …
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
SMALL, FLAT DESK SERVING AS A DRESSING TABLE AND HANDICRAFT TABLE, with a flowing design from the Louis-Philippe period; all sides in blackened wood and Boulle marquetry of brass, pewter and stained tortoiseshell, decorated with feminine mascarons, rosettes with foliage motifs, floral scrolls and butterflies
The dark top is covered in red leather and inlaid with a mother-of-pearl monogram; in very good condition, with a dark reverse side to a mirror framed by a gilded bronze frieze with foliage motifs andquadrifoliate spandrels on a blue background, revealing an interior of rosewood veneer with compartments, two of which are closed by shutters lined with pink velvet on the reverse, forming a writing surface and a pin holder
A belt-style drawer with multiple compartments, one of which features a sliding writing surface
Curved legs
Ornamentation in gilded bronze, including mouldings of ribbon-adorned laurel wreaths and faun mascarons in three different designs
The underside of the top is inlaid with a copper plaque engraved with the inscription: ‘Souvenir offered on 17 January 1843 in memory of the kindness shown on 15 July 1841’
77 x 98.5 x 59.5 cm
(numerous damage and losses)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate 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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