A Napoleon III malachite-inset ebonised bureau-cabinet

IN THE RENAISSANCE STYLE, BY JEAN-PAUL MAZAROZER, PARIS, CIRCA 1870

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A Napoleon III malachite-inset ebonised bureau-cabinet
In the Renaissance Style, By Jean-Paul Mazarozer, Paris, Circa 1870
Of architectural shape, the pediment centered by a figure of Minerva in an arch, flanked to each side by a classical reclining maiden, above a pair of cupboard doors, the interior fitted with two adjustable shelves, above a frieze drawer opening to reveal a blue velvet-lined writing-surface with two small drawers, above two cupboard doors, the interior fitted with an adjustable shelf, on four feet, the carcass signed P. MAZAROZ R with a * and impressed 6317
88 in. (224 cm.) high; 40¾ in. (103.5 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep

Provenance

This bureau-cabinet was sold in these rooms on 29 February 1996, lot 23.

Lot Essay

This cabinet, surmounted by emblematic figures of Peace and Plenty and conceived in the French Renaissance manner of the Second Empire, was designed by the sculptor and artiste industriel Jean-Paul Mazarozer (d. 1900), of the the rue des Filles-du-Calvaire and executed at his workshops in the rue Ternaux-Popincourt, to which he succeeded from Pierre Ribailler (d. 1868) his partner and father-in-law. He helped to organise the 1865 Exhibition at the Union centrale des Arts decoratifs and was a silver medallist at the 1878 Exposition universelle. He also published a book of designs in the Renaissance style.

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