HENRI PICARD (1840-1890)

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Ebony, brass, gilt bronze,

99.50 cm wide   112.00 cm high   44.50 cm deep

39.17 inches wide  44.09 inches high  17.52 inches deep

Henri Picard, a notable fondeur and doreur, is recorded as working in Paris from 1831 to 1864, from 6 rue Jarente and later at 10 rue de la Perle.

Their work was highly regarded by the Emperor Napoleon III, and they supplied furniture to his apartments in Fontainebleu, now on exhibit in the Louvre.

Constructed in ebony with extensive and well executed cut brass decorative inlay work, and gilt bronze ornamentation; rising from toupie bronze dressed feet, the bodies of double breakfront form, the lower aprons with boxed inlays in brass; over, the single lockable doors, housing shelved interiors, bear elliptical gilt bronze plaques, one depicting a youthful Bacchus and Ariadne, the other, Venus and Cupid, tied atop with ‘lovers knot’ bows, set in complex inlaid brass foliate fields, framed by re-entrant stiff leaf bronze mounts, and being themselves within exterior raised pillars, decorated with grotesque dolphin bases, and Tuscan inspired capitols above; the upper frieze having gilt bronze guilloche panels, with platforms of Rouge Royale marbles, within bronze guard bands. The fine gilt bronze mounts marked to the reverses ‘HPR’, for Henri Picard of Paris

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