PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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Louis XVI-style BILLET DOUX from the Napoleon III period, in…
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258
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Louis XVI-style BILLET DOUX from the Napoleon III period, in…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
Louis XVI-style BILLET DOUX from the Napoleon III period, in mahogany, mahogany veneer and brass ornamentation, opening to a flap inlaid with four fleurs-de-lis at the corners, revealing two compartments and two drawers, including a waist drawer, with a marble top featuring a gallery
Fluted column-style side panels with a dark cross-brace made of white marble veined with grey
Rear side panels topped with a gilt-bronze acanthus plume
Fixed back panel (incomplete in terms of its fittings)
Spindle legs
106 x 56.5 x 29 cm
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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