AN ORMOLU AND SEVRES-STYLE MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND PURPLE HEART BED by Deitz, Paris, with an arched headboard, surmounted by two seated maidens supporting a ribbon-tied laurel oval inset with an oval plaque depicting figures in 18th Century costume, the reverse with a foliate engraved ormolu panel, signed Deitz, Ebéniste à Paris, flanked to each side by a neo-classical altar with a flaming finial and domed lid with pierced frieze on ram mask monopodiae, with hairy hoof feet and foliate festoons and confirming base, the front edge with a standing draped maiden holding a trail of flowers in her hands, on shaped stepped base with toupie feet, the footboard to match, with two stretchers, the show stretcher centred by an oval framed porcelain plaque painted with a couple by a lake and castle, late 19th Century

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AN ORMOLU AND SEVRES-STYLE MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND PURPLE HEART BED by Deitz, Paris, with an arched headboard, surmounted by two seated maidens supporting a ribbon-tied laurel oval inset with an oval plaque depicting figures in 18th Century costume, the reverse with a foliate engraved ormolu panel, signed Deitz, Ebéniste à Paris, flanked to each side by a neo-classical altar with a flaming finial and domed lid with pierced frieze on ram mask monopodiae, with hairy hoof feet and foliate festoons and confirming base, the front edge with a standing draped maiden holding a trail of flowers in her hands, on shaped stepped base with toupie feet, the footboard to match, with two stretchers, the show stretcher centred by an oval framed porcelain plaque painted with a couple by a lake and castle, late 19th Century
88¾in. (225.5cm.) long; 60in. (152.5cm.) wide; 66in. (168cm.) high

Lot Essay

This bed and the following lot are designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner of the 1770s, and embellished with porcelain plaques of pastoral subjects in the style of ?????????. The bed-posts formed as pedestal-supported and garland-bearing caryatid nymphs and surmounted by tripod-based casolettes. The armoire is flanked by nymph 'herm' pilasters bearing corn and grapes, emblematic of summer and winter. The bed head medallion depicting a courting couple. Chrétien Dietz opened his magasin in the rue Royale-Saint-Honoré in 1864, at a time when decorative porcelain-mounted furniture, associated with the Marie Antoinette style, had become highly fashionable

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