A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED, PEWTER AND BRASS `BOULLE`-INLAID EBONY AND EBONIZED PEDESTALS

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Lot 443 | A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED, PEWTER AND BRASS 'BOULLE'-INLAID EBONY AND EBONIZED PEDESTALS
A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED, PEWTER AND BRASS 'BOULLE'-INLAID EBONY AND EBONIZED PEDESTALS

CIRCA 1860

Inlaid overall in première and contre-partie with a stepped rectangular top, above and egg-and-dart molding with a trailing vine-leaf frieze above a Bacchic mask, each centered by a medallion the first depicting the Emperor Nero and inscribed 'VI / NERO. AVG' the second depicting Vespasian and inscribed 'XI / T. VESP. AVG', the tapering sides headed by satyr masks on a stepped rectangular plinth base

52 ¼ in. (133 cm.) high, 20 ½ in. (52 cm.) wide, 15 ½ 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

Les Rothschild en France au XVIIIe siècle, dir. Claude Collard et Melanie Aspey, (cat. exp. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 20 novembre 2012-10 février 2013), Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, p. 131 (ill.)
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