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A LARGE NAPOLEON III ORMOLU, LAPIS LAZULI, JASPER, AND HARDSTONE-MOUNTED CABINET A DEUX CORPS

Lot 54
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 54 | A LARGE NAPOLEON III ORMOLU, LAPIS LAZULI, JASPER, AND HARDSTONE-MOUNTED CABINET A DEUX CORPS
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£ 200 000 – 400 000
A LARGE NAPOLEON III ORMOLU, LAPIS LAZULI, JASPER, AND HARDSTONE-MOUNTED CABINET A DEUX CORPS
BY LOUIS-AUGUSTE-ALFRED BEURDELEY, PARIS, CIRCA 1867
Of architectural form, the demi-lune pediment centred by a mask of Mercury, above a cornice over four doors elaborately decorated with classical motifs and figures and punctuated with medallions and panels of rosso antico and diaspro di barga, flanked by fluted columns headed by Corinthian capitals and decorated with intertwining laurel branches, the frieze with four drawers similarly-decorated, the lower section with a central door decorated with ribbon-tied scrolling foliage, flanked by two doors with laurel medallions centred by the Three Graces holding amphorae of water, on a conforming plinth with laurel wreath moulding, the carcase stamped five times 'A. BEURDELEY/PARIS'
112 in. (284.5 cm.) high; 84 in. (213.4 cm.) wide; 25 ¼ in. (64.1 cm.) deep




Provenance

Vente Beurdeley, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6-9 May 1895, lot 565, where acquired by Ch. Mannheim.
With Galerie Pierre Lécoules, Paris, circa 1960.
Formerly in the Collection of T.C . Morrow, Texas, Houston, from 1969 to 1989.
Sold Christie's, New York, 2 November 1989, lot 352, where acquired by Jean-Marie Ross Galerie Aveline.
Private Collection, Paris.
Sold Sotheby's, Paris, 13 November 2018, lot 51.



Literature

P. Burty, "Le Mobilier moderne", Gazette des Beaux- Arts, January 1868, vol. XXIV, p. 40.
A. Desvernay, Exposition Universelle de 1867 à Paris, Paris, 1868, vol. I, p. 48 (illustrated).
F. Ducuing, L'Exposition Universelle de 1867, Paris, 1868, vol. I, pp. 132-134 (illustrated).
E. Dognée, Les Arts Industriels à l'Exposition Universelle de 1867, Paris, 1869, pp. 262-263.
H. Demoriane, "Le Louis XVI qu'aimait Eugénie", Connaissance des Arts, n°116, October 1961, p.85 (illustrated).
D. Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ebénistes du XIXe siècle (1795-1889), Paris, 1965, p. 47, pl. 17 (illustrated).
D. Alcouffe, L'Art en France sous le Second Empire, Paris, 1979, n° 50, pp. 126-128 (illustrated).
C. Mestdagh, L'Ameublement d'art français 1850-1900, Paris, 2010, p. 67, fig. 70 et p. 141, fig. 157 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867.
Exhibition L'Art en France sous le Second Empire, Paris, Grand Palais, 11 May-13 August 1979, n° 50.
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