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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMERICAN WALNUT CREDENCE

Lot 166
26.01.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 22 500
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 166 | A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMERICAN WALNUT CREDENCE
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 25 000
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMERICAN WALNUT CREDENCE

DESIGNED BY EDOUARD LIEVRE, ATTRIBUTED TO PAUL SORMANI, CIRCA 1870

In the neo-Renaissance style, the spreading pediment with Vitruvian scroll-fitted frieze, centered by an urn and flanked by cartouches, the quarter panelled doors with pierced rinceaux reserves and centred by portrait relief roundels of King Charles VII of France 'The Victorious' (1403-1461) and Agnès Sorel (1422-1450), each opening to an adjustable shelf, flanking a statuette of 'The Belvedere Hermes’, the base fronted by five open arches centred by a pair of columns with Corinthian capitals, above a spreading platform, on bun feet

71 1⁄4 in. (181 cm.) high; 59 in. (150 cm.) wide; 23 1⁄2 in. (57 cm.) deep







Provenance

Succession de Feu Edouard Lièvre, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 21-24 March 1887, no. 16 (3,500 francs).

The Collection of M. Leprince.

Private Collection.





Literature

Catalogue des Meubles d’Art de la Succession de feu de M. Edouard Lièvre, 21-24 March 1887, no. 16.

P. Eudel, L’Hôtel Drouot et la Curiosité en 1886-1887, Paris, 1888, p. 120: ‘Credence en noyer enrichie de bronzes’.

'Édouard Lièvre', Connaissance des Arts, N° 228, Paris 2004, S. 28 ff.

Optima propagare Edouard Lièvre: Créateur de meuble & objets d’art, Galerie Roxane Rodriguez, Paris, 2004, pp. 32-33.





Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Roxane Rodriguez, Optima propagare Edouard Lièvre: Créateur de meuble & objets d’art, 16 September – 16 October 2004.





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Medium:Wood, Walnut
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