拍品专文
Georges II Jacob and François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter used this stamp between 1796 and 1803
This impressive guéridon à l'Antique, with tripartite base with ormolu columns cast with anthemia supporting a marble top inlaid with various marbles, is based on guéridons modelled after the antique by Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine in their influential Récueil de Décoration Interieurs, 1812 (see figs. 24 and 39). Its form also relates to various Imperial commissions by Jacob-Desmalter. A guéridon with pietra dura top and column uprights, supplied by Jacob-Desmalter in 1810 to Empress Marie-Louise for the Salon Doré in her private apartments in the Palais des Tuileries, was sold in these Rooms, 25 May 1993, lot 112. A guéridon with micro-mosaic top by the Florentine workshop of Giovanni Andrea and Francia Schianta, supplied by Jacob-Desmalter circa 1805 to the Murats for their royal apartments in the Elysée Palace and now in the Grand Trianon, is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon, Meubles et Objets d'Art, vol. I, 1975, pp. 147-148. The pietra dura top of the guéridon offered here, inlaid with various marbles in a radiating pattern, is attributed to the workshop of Francesco Belloni (1772-c. 1844). Belloni was a specialist in pietra dura, whose Laboratorio di Mosaico was originally based in Rome. In 1798, he moved to Paris, where he is first recorded in 1802 in the rue de l'Université. His workshop was granted the title of École Impériale de Mosaique by Napoleon in 1809. Belloni continued to work after the restoration of the monarchy and executed circa 1825 an elaborately inlaid table-top for Charles X, now in the Louvre (see A. Giusti ed., Splendori di Pietre Duri, exhibition catalogue, 1988, p. 248).
MARÉCHAL NEY
Michel Ney, made captain in 1794 and general in 1796, was one of Napoleon's most trusted commanders and a legendary figure throughout the Napoleonic campaigns. In 1805 he commanded the VI corps of the Grande Armée at the battle of Elchingen, and his victory there led Napoleon to grant him the title of Duc d'Elchingen in 1808. He was a significant figure during the Russian campagn of 1812, leading the troops at the victory of Borodino, on the eve of which he was made Prince de la Moskowa. Napoleon gave him the famous title for his personal heroism of 'the bravest of the brave'. Maréchal Ney's great grandson, Napoléon-Louis-Michel-Ney, from whose estate the guéridon was sold in 1929, succeded to the title as the fourth Duc d'Elchingen in 1881, and succeded to the title of the Prince de la Moskowa following the death of his great uncle. He married Princess Eugénie Laetitia Bonaparte in Rome.
This impressive guéridon à l'Antique, with tripartite base with ormolu columns cast with anthemia supporting a marble top inlaid with various marbles, is based on guéridons modelled after the antique by Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine in their influential Récueil de Décoration Interieurs, 1812 (see figs. 24 and 39). Its form also relates to various Imperial commissions by Jacob-Desmalter. A guéridon with pietra dura top and column uprights, supplied by Jacob-Desmalter in 1810 to Empress Marie-Louise for the Salon Doré in her private apartments in the Palais des Tuileries, was sold in these Rooms, 25 May 1993, lot 112. A guéridon with micro-mosaic top by the Florentine workshop of Giovanni Andrea and Francia Schianta, supplied by Jacob-Desmalter circa 1805 to the Murats for their royal apartments in the Elysée Palace and now in the Grand Trianon, is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon, Meubles et Objets d'Art, vol. I, 1975, pp. 147-148. The pietra dura top of the guéridon offered here, inlaid with various marbles in a radiating pattern, is attributed to the workshop of Francesco Belloni (1772-c. 1844). Belloni was a specialist in pietra dura, whose Laboratorio di Mosaico was originally based in Rome. In 1798, he moved to Paris, where he is first recorded in 1802 in the rue de l'Université. His workshop was granted the title of École Impériale de Mosaique by Napoleon in 1809. Belloni continued to work after the restoration of the monarchy and executed circa 1825 an elaborately inlaid table-top for Charles X, now in the Louvre (see A. Giusti ed., Splendori di Pietre Duri, exhibition catalogue, 1988, p. 248).
MARÉCHAL NEY
Michel Ney, made captain in 1794 and general in 1796, was one of Napoleon's most trusted commanders and a legendary figure throughout the Napoleonic campaigns. In 1805 he commanded the VI corps of the Grande Armée at the battle of Elchingen, and his victory there led Napoleon to grant him the title of Duc d'Elchingen in 1808. He was a significant figure during the Russian campagn of 1812, leading the troops at the victory of Borodino, on the eve of which he was made Prince de la Moskowa. Napoleon gave him the famous title for his personal heroism of 'the bravest of the brave'. Maréchal Ney's great grandson, Napoléon-Louis-Michel-Ney, from whose estate the guéridon was sold in 1929, succeded to the title as the fourth Duc d'Elchingen in 1881, and succeded to the title of the Prince de la Moskowa following the death of his great uncle. He married Princess Eugénie Laetitia Bonaparte in Rome.