A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY, ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE, PEWTER AND BRASS-INLAID `BOULLE` MARQUETRY PEDESTALS

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13.10.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 377 | A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY, ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE, PEWTER AND BRASS-INLAID 'BOULLE' MARQUETRY PEDESTALS
A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY, ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE, PEWTER AND BRASS-INLAID 'BOULLE' MARQUETRY PEDESTALS

PROBABLY AFTER A DESIGN BY EUGENE LAMI, CIRCA 1860

The stepped square platform above an egg-and-dart molded and inlaid frieze, the tapering body headed by a mask, the sides with inlaid marquetry beneath roundels depicting Roman Emperors, on a gadrooned stepped square plinth

52 ¾ in. (134 cm.) high, 20 ¼ in. (52 cm.) wide, 15 ¼ in. (39 cm.) deep





Provenance

Baron James de Rothschild (1792-1868), Grand Hall, in the Château de Ferrières, Seine-et-Marne.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

'Château de fêtes du temps des crinolines : Ferrières’, Plaisir de France, December 1969, p. 67, no. 373.
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