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Lot Essay
This table de milieu is exemplary of Edouard Lièvre’s furniture in ‘le style japonais et chinois’. A small number of tables of the model are known: one was sold from Lièvre's personal collection at Hôtel Drouot following his death in March 1887 (lot no. 60). Another in is the collection of the Musée d'Orsay (OAO1162).
Towards the late 1870s, Lièvre created a suite of Japanese-inspired furniture for Albert Vieillard (d. 1895), the renowned director of Bordeaux's ceramics manufactory, including his celebrated Cabinet Japonais, now in the Musée d'Orsay (OAO555). Lièvre was no doubt inspired by Vieillard's keen interest for the ‘sinojaponais’, but his interest in the orient was also influenced by a 16th century Chinese table belonging to Baron James de Rothschild which he illustrated for the publication ‘Les Collections Célèbres’.
The distinctive gilt-bronze mount to the centre of the front and back frieze is the Chinese symbol ‘shou’ for longevity and also used on other pieces by Lièvre.
Towards the late 1870s, Lièvre created a suite of Japanese-inspired furniture for Albert Vieillard (d. 1895), the renowned director of Bordeaux's ceramics manufactory, including his celebrated Cabinet Japonais, now in the Musée d'Orsay (OAO555). Lièvre was no doubt inspired by Vieillard's keen interest for the ‘sinojaponais’, but his interest in the orient was also influenced by a 16th century Chinese table belonging to Baron James de Rothschild which he illustrated for the publication ‘Les Collections Célèbres’.
The distinctive gilt-bronze mount to the centre of the front and back frieze is the Chinese symbol ‘shou’ for longevity and also used on other pieces by Lièvre.