PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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SMALL OFFICE OR DRESSING TABLE ARMCHAIR with a gondola-style…
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257
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SMALL OFFICE OR DRESSING TABLE ARMCHAIR with a gondola-style…
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
SMALL OFFICE OR DRESSING TABLE ARMCHAIR with a gondola-style backrest, formerly with a swivel seat, in the Louis XVI style – Napoleon III period, made of moulded, fluted wood and finished in grey lacquer, with tapered legs
Flat seat
Period silk upholstery (worn)
90 x 53.5 x 53 cm
(damage and restoration to the apron)
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
French naval engineer (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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