拍品 446
446
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY VITRINE-ON-STAND

细节
A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY VITRINE-ON-STAND
BY HENRY DASSON, DATED 1892

With an eared rectangular moulded Siena marble top above an ormolu- moulded frieze applied into foliate scrolls over a case fitted with bevelled glass panels fitted into a door fluted by foliate cast disengaged colonnettes headed by crisply cast female caryatids representative of the fine arts and music above a spring activated drawer applied with foliate scrolling masks with satrys and birds on tapering octagonal fluted supports backed by a panel with an incurved rectangular ormolu-moulded Sienna marble undertier, on toupie feet with ormolu cuffs indistinctly stamped 'HENRY DASSON 1892' and inscribed henry Dasson et Cie 1892--65in. (165cm.) high, 32in. (81.3) wide, 16½ (42cm.) deep (2)

拍品专文

for Henry Dasson, see footnote to lot 293

By repute the portrait medallion on the righthand disengaged colonnette is that of Dasson himself. However, the bust better resembles that of Napoleon III who was a great patron of the decorative arts and was responsible for allowing Dasson to copy the "bureau du roi".