A CHARLES X ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED AMARANTH-INLAID BIRCH LIT D'ALCOVE

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A CHARLES X ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED AMARANTH-INLAID BIRCH LIT D'ALCOVE
CIRCA 1830, BY JOSEPH-MARIE BENARD

With overscroll headboard mounted with acanthus-cast scrolling foliage above a rail inlaid with Greek key centering porcelain plaques with portraits on bracket feet inlaid with theatrical muses after the Antique palmette on casters, upholstered in lavender cut velvet-39in. (97.5cm.) high, 38in. (96.5cm.) wide, 79in. (200cm.) long

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, 28 April 1990, lot 196

Lot Essay

Joseph-Marie Benard, recorded as working in Paris from 1818-1851 together with one of his brothers, established the firm Benard Frères in 1826. He was awarded a citation for 'meubles en bois indigènes et richement décorés at the 1823 Exposition des produits de l'industrie. A virtually identical lit à l'antique in mahogany executed circa 1826 by Bernard Frères for Mademoiselle Mars is illustrated in D. Lodoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXe Siècle, 1984, p.67.