19TH CENTURY

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A NORTH EUROPEAN BRONZED AND PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE
19TH CENTURY
The later rectangular brèche violette marble top above a foliate moulded cornice and reeded frieze centred by a tablet with a eagle clasping an olive branch, on spirally-reeded legs entwined with winged snakes, on hairy paw feet, redecorated
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 50¾ in. (129 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep

来源

Acquired from Mallett by the previous owners as part of Stéphane Boudin of Maison Jansen's scheme of decoration.

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

The table-frame, japanned in trompe l'oeil bronze in the antique or Roman fashion, displays Jupiter's eagle in the fluted frieze tablet. The legs comprise entwined and winged Bacchic 'draco' serpents and terminate in Bacchic lion-paws. Related legs feature on a lion-armed sofa designed around 1790 by Jean-Demosthene Dugourc (d.1825), dessinateur to Louis XVI's brother (M. Beurdeley, Georges Jacob et son temps, 2002, p.130).

Maison Jansen

Maison Jansen, the foremost interior decorating company in France, was founded by Henri Jansen in 1880. Dutch by birth, he established the decorating, furniture-making and antique-dealing firm first in Paris, and later expanded to a variety of cities around the world. The firm's glory days date back to the 1930s, when Stéphane Boudin directed the firm, until he retired in the late Sixties. Boudin is famed for decorating the houses of some of the most prominent figures of the early 20th century, including the much-admired Kennedy White house decor, with its imperial Francophile air. The eminent Paris designer also planned and/or executed decors for the royal families of Belgium and Iran, the Duchess of Windsor and the Agnellis, to name a few. Sumptuous yet restrained, with fine furniture and pictures, his interiors were unmistakably regal but free of excessive formality.