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زوج من البرونز الفرنسي المذهب المثبت على الأبنوس Meubles d'Appui
£95,000
A pair of French gilt-bronze mounted and ebonised meubles d'appui, by Mathieu Béfort dit Béfort Jeune. Each has a vert maurin marble top above a cupboard...
ابعاد
Height: 115 cm (46 in)Width: 83 cm (33 in)
العمق: 42 سم (17 بوصة)
وصف
A pair of French gilt-bronze mounted and ebonised meubles d’appui, by Mathieu Béfort dit Béfort Jeune.
Each has a vert maurin marble top above a cupboard door applied with large oval gilt-bronze medallions depicting Hercules and Orpheus, opening to an interior fitted with an adjustable shelf, each twice stamped ‘BEFORT JEUNE’, and mounts marked ‘BJ’
الفرنسية، حوالي عام 1850.
The two gilt-bronze oval medallions represent Orpheus in Hades and Hercules Chaining Cerberus and are after a design attributed to Augustin Pajou (1730–1809), the pair of are a type recorded to decorate a single cabinet at the Hôtel de Voyer d’Argenson as drawn by Sir William Chambers in 1769.
تاريخ
حوالي عام 1850
أصل
فرنسا
متوسط
Eboinised Wood & Gilt-Bronze
توقيع
Stamped twice 'BEFORT JEUNE' | the mounts marked 'BJ'.
J. Draper, G. Scherf, Pajou sculpteur du Roi 1730-1809, cat. exp., Paris & New York, 1998, p. 164-165, fig. 100.
J. Harris, ‘Sir Williams Chambers and his Parisian Album’, dans Architectural History. The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, t. 6, 1963, pp. 54-90, p. 60, fig. 7