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Пара французских позолоченных бронзовых монтировок с эбонизированными предметами сервировки

France, Circa 1850

£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...

Размеры

Height: 115 cm (46 in)
Ширина: 83 см (33 дюйма)
Depth: 42 cm (17 in)
REF NO : B75891

Описание

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’

Франция, около 1850 года.

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.

Дата

Около 1850 года

Происхождение

Франция

Средний

Eboinised Wood & Gilt-Bronze

Подпись

Stamped twice 'BEFORT JEUNE' | the mounts marked 'BJ'.

Литература

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

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