A NAPOLEON III GILT-BRONZE CENTREPIECE

BY CHRISTOFLE, PARIS, CIRCA 1867/8

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A NAPOLEON III GILT-BRONZE CENTREPIECE
BY CHRISTOFLE, PARIS, CIRCA 1867/8
Of oval outshape with egg-and-leaf cast rim flanked by scrolled acanthus handles, the frieze with pierced flowering acanthus panels set to front and back with a ribbon-tied cartouch, lacking cyphers/crest plaques, on scrolled leaf-cast feat stamped 'CHRISTOFLE' and '602850', with electrotype basin liner also stamped 'CHRISTOFLE' and numbered '602850'
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high; 29 in. (74 cm.) wide; 16 in. (41 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This jardinière titled 'Louis XVI enroulement' was a popular pattern existing in at least two sizes, often silver plated or more unusually in gilt-bronze like the present lot. One ordered by the Ministère d'état for the Tuileries is exhibited in the Louvre, and illustrated in J. Fleming & H. Honour, Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts, 1989, p. 740. Another in silvered-bronze, with Napoleon III cypher, sold Sotheby's, Paris, 28 March 2007, lot 148 (43,200 euro).

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