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拍品專文
Designed all'Antica and executed in patinated bronze, this jardinière is similar to two tables depicted in C. Percier and P.F.L. Fontaine's Recueil de Décorations Intérieures of 1801 (illus. Innendecorationen Moebel und Geraethe von C. Percier und P.F.L. Fontaine, Berlin, n.d., plates 23 and 33). These designs for tripod tables, in turn, copy Antique prototypes such as those unearthed at the Temple of Isis, Pompeii.
In its overall form, this jardinière is inspired by a group of atheniennes, candelabra and tripods supplied by the marchand-mercier Dominique Dagauerre who is known to have employed the bronziers Pierre Gouthière, Pierre-Philippe Thomire (d.1843) and François Rémond (1747-1812). With their short wings, high and round-busted torsos and cooly smiling faces, the winged caryatid figures who support the pierced basket are quite similar to the cast-bronze uprights to a verde antico chimneypiece ordered by the garde-meuble Impèriale for the principal salon in the Empress's apartments at Compiègne.
In its overall form, this jardinière is inspired by a group of atheniennes, candelabra and tripods supplied by the marchand-mercier Dominique Dagauerre who is known to have employed the bronziers Pierre Gouthière, Pierre-Philippe Thomire (d.1843) and François Rémond (1747-1812). With their short wings, high and round-busted torsos and cooly smiling faces, the winged caryatid figures who support the pierced basket are quite similar to the cast-bronze uprights to a verde antico chimneypiece ordered by the garde-meuble Impèriale for the principal salon in the Empress's apartments at Compiègne.