Lot Essay
This table was delivered on 28 March 1816 to the Garde Meuble at a price of 7500 Francs and is subsequently listed as no. 1047 in the 1829 inventory of the Château des Tuileries at which time it was in the Salon de famille du Roi. It was made by Louis-François-Laurent Puteaux (1780-1864), recorded in 1816 at 24 rue d'Argenteuil, by 1821 rue Grande-Taranne, and 1824-1829 rue de la Pépinière. Puteaux acquired a reputation for his nouveau moyen de travailler les bois idigènes. He made a suite of furniture decorated with various emblems of France, part of which was bought by the Garde Meuble.
The descriptions at the time of delivery and in the 1829 inventory state that the top of the table was originally centred by an ivory plaque engraved with a portrait of Henri IV, within the cypher of Louis XVIII in mother o'pearl. This and the decoration on the frieze was removed after the table was returned to the Garde-Meuble on 8 November 1830 and subsequently sold.
probably in a slae of surplus furniture from the Garde-Meuble by Hamot and Chauvelot, 23 Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 9-26 May 1831.
This table was commissioned by the Ville de Paris in honour of Louis XVIII to celebrate the festival of Saint-Louis. It was completed in August 1814 at a total cost of 7469 francs and placed in a room prepared for the duchesse d'Angoulême in the Hôtel de Ville.
The table entered the Garde-Meuble on 10 May 1816 under the inventory number 10293 at a value of 7,000 francs. It was placed in the Salon de famille du Roi of the Château des Tuileries on 26 January, 1825 where it remained until November, 1830. It appears in the 1825 inventory and also in the 1826 inventory as number 1047 with a blue cover for the top listed as number 1048.
The descriptions at the time of delivery and in the 1829 inventory state that the top of the table was originally centred by an ivory plaque engraved with a portrait of Henri IV, within the cypher of Louis XVIII in mother o'pearl. This and the decoration on the frieze was removed after the table was returned to the Garde-Meuble on 8 November 1830 and subsequently sold.
probably in a slae of surplus furniture from the Garde-Meuble by Hamot and Chauvelot, 23 Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 9-26 May 1831.
This table was commissioned by the Ville de Paris in honour of Louis XVIII to celebrate the festival of Saint-Louis. It was completed in August 1814 at a total cost of 7469 francs and placed in a room prepared for the duchesse d'Angoulême in the Hôtel de Ville.
The table entered the Garde-Meuble on 10 May 1816 under the inventory number 10293 at a value of 7,000 francs. It was placed in the Salon de famille du Roi of the Château des Tuileries on 26 January, 1825 where it remained until November, 1830. It appears in the 1825 inventory and also in the 1826 inventory as number 1047 with a blue cover for the top listed as number 1048.