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PAIRE DE PIEDESTAUX D`EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

Lot 20
21.11.2023 15:00UTC +01:00
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Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 1072644
Lot 20 | PAIRE DE PIEDESTAUX D'EPOQUE LOUIS XVI
Estimate value
€ 300 000 – 500 000
PAIRE DE PIEDESTAUX D'EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

LES BRONZES PAR PIERRE GOUTHIERE, LE MARBRE SCULPTE PAR JACQUES ADAN, D'APRES UN DESSIN DE FRANCOIS-JOSEPH BELANGER, LIVREE POUR LOUISE-JEANNE DE DURFORT DE DURAS, DUCHESSE DE MAZARIN POUR SON HOTEL QUAI MALAQUAIS, PARIS, VERS 1780

En marbre bleu turquin et ornementation de bronze ciselé et doré, le plateau associé de forme demi-lune souligné d'une frise d'oves et d'une frise de palmettes entrecoupées de gerbes de blé stylisées, séparées par un perlé, le corps orné de luxuriantes guirlandes et chutes de fruits et feuillages retenues par des noeuds enrubannés centrés d'une rosette, la base bordée d'une frise de feuilles d'acanthe, les côtés décorés chacun d'un thyrse entrelacé de feuilles de vigne, un piédestal avec l'inscription à la craie à l'arrière 'FLEURY MICHEL' et 'G G' ; quelques bronzes associés et modifications en taille

H.: 108 cm. (42 ½ in.) ; L.: 96 cm. (37 ¾ in.) ; P.: 64 cm. (25 in.)





Provenance

Livrée pour Louise-Jeanne de Durfort, Duchesse de Mazarin pour le Grand Salon de son hôtel particulier, quai Malaquais, Paris ; sa vente, M. Lebrun, Paris, 10 décembre 1781, lot 283.

Par réputation conservée à l'hôtel quai Malaquais jusqu'en 1845 ;

Baron James de Rothschild (1792-1868), Salon Louis XVI, Château de Ferrières, Seine-et-Mare, puis par descendance jusqu'au propriétaire actuel.



Literature

Jean Baptiste Pierre Lebrun, Catalogue raisonné des marbres, jaspes, agates, porcelaines anciennes, laques, beaux meubles, lustres, feux & bras de bronze doré par Gouttier, boîtes de laque, lapis, & autres formant le cabinet de Madame la duchesse Mazarin, Paris, 1781, pp. 81-82.

M. Praz, An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration, From Pompeii to Art Nouveau, Milan, 1981, p. 32.

H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldeten Bronzen, t.2, Munich, 1986, pp. 582-583 (ill.)

P. Prevost-Marcilhacy, Les Rothschild bâtisseurs et mécènes, Paris, 1995, p. 134 (ill.)

C. Frégnac et J. Wilhelm, Belles Demeures de Paris, 16e - 19e siècle, 1997, p. 75.

C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Visites privées, hôtels particuliers de Paris, Paris,1999, p. 19.

cat. exp, C. Collard et M. Aspey, Les Rothschild en France au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 20 novembre 2012-10 février 2013, p. 88 (ill.)

Cat. Expo, C. Vignon et C. Baulez, Pierre Gouthière, ciseleur-doreur du Roi, Frick Collection, New York et Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 2016-2017 pp. 318-319 (ill.)



Exhibited

Pierre Gouthière, ciseleur-doreur du Roi, Frick Collection, New York et Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 2016 - 2017, cat 49.



Further details

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLEU TURQUIN MARBLE PEDESTALS, THE ORMOLU BY PIERRE GOUTHIÈRE, THE MARBLE CARVED BY JACQUES ADAN, AFTER A DESIGN BY FRANCOIS-JOSEPH BÉLANGER, DELIVERED TO LOUISE-JEANNE DE DURFORT, DUCHESSE DE MAZARIN FOR HER HÔTEL ON THE QUAI MALAQUAIS, CIRCA 1780
Artist:Pierre Gouthière (1732–1813)
Applied technique:Ormolu
Medium:Marble, Gold, Stone
Historical era:Period of Louis XVI
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Category:Nightstands
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps
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