SMALL WALL-MOUNTED CONSOLE TABLE with an undulating shape in the...
SMALL WALL-MOUNTED CONSOLE TABLE with an undulating shape in the Louis XV style, from the Napoleonic III period or later, made of carved wood lacquered green with Rocaille decoration, top of red Pyrenean marble, with a band and crossbar adorned with an openwork shell motif; opposing console legs
85 x 98 x 47.5 cm
(marble with surface imperfections, repaired)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var region, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
SMALL WALL-MOUNTED CONSOLE TABLE with an undulating shape in the Louis XV style, from the Napoleonic III period or later, made of carved wood lacquered green with Rocaille decoration, top of red Pyrenean marble, with a band and crossbar adorned with an openwork shell motif; opposing console legs
85 x 98 x 47.5 cm
(marble with surface imperfections, repaired)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var region, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
