Lot Essay
This 'table de déjeuner', with its marble tray and altar-tripod 'guéridon', relates to a 'round table' pattern in the Roman manner illustrated in Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine's pattern book presenting works dating from 1797 onwards and entitled, Recueil de Decorations Intérieures comprenant tout ce qui a un rapport à l'ameublement, 1801 pl.no 3. The dished and moulded-edged top of marble has a marble-figured mahogany frame with moulded cornice and hollow-sided plinth, and is supported by chimerical Bacchic lion-monopodiae, wrapped by Roman acanthus and corresponding to those of a desk illustrated by Percier (op.cit., pl 32).
LOUIS-FRANÇOIS BELLANGÉ
(1759-1827).
uis-François Bellangé, the younger brother of the menuisier Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, established his atelier in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin and, subsequently, from 1818, in the rue des Marais-Saint-Martin. Appointed 'Fournisseur de Napoléon' in 1811, he supplied bookcases and tables in mahogany and clearly flourished, purchasing the Marais-Saint-Martin house for 21,960 Francs, as well as a further town house and another in the country. The inventory taken following his death in 1827, which valued the contents of his workshops at 21,960 Francs, fascinatingly reveals that he specialised in furniture embellished with 'biscuit anglais' (Wedgwood), pietra dure, lacquer and porcelain.
LOUIS-FRANÇOIS BELLANGÉ
(1759-1827).
uis-François Bellangé, the younger brother of the menuisier Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, established his atelier in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin and, subsequently, from 1818, in the rue des Marais-Saint-Martin. Appointed 'Fournisseur de Napoléon' in 1811, he supplied bookcases and tables in mahogany and clearly flourished, purchasing the Marais-Saint-Martin house for 21,960 Francs, as well as a further town house and another in the country. The inventory taken following his death in 1827, which valued the contents of his workshops at 21,960 Francs, fascinatingly reveals that he specialised in furniture embellished with 'biscuit anglais' (Wedgwood), pietra dure, lacquer and porcelain.