&w=3840&q=75)
&w=3840&q=75)
&w=3840&q=75)
&w=3840&q=75)
&w=3840&q=75)
&w=3840&q=75)
&w=3840&q=75)
&w=3840&q=75)
180
FRANÇOIS HONORÉ GEORGES JACOB-DESMALTER (1770 – 1841)
The item was sold for 20 800 €
Fees include commission and taxes.
FRANÇOIS HONORÉ GEORGES JACOB-DESMALTER (1770 – 1841)
Exceptional planter in the shape of an Athenian designed after a drawing by Percier and Fontaine in mahogany veneer and gilded wood. The three legs are in the form of winged Egyptian busts ending in shanks, all in gilded wood, joined by a triangular spacer veneered in mahogany and decorated in its center with a stylized pine cone in gilded wood. Stamped Jacob D. R. Meslée (period 1803 - 1813).
Height : 112 cm - Diameter : 56 cm
This design in the shape of a tripod derives from a piece of furniture created by Jean-Henri Eberts (1726 - 1803) called Athenian after the painting of Jean-Marie Vien : " la vertueuse athénienne ". The newspaper "l'Avant-Coureur" placed an advertisement on September 27, 1773 and, as soon as it was published, this type of tripod in the antique style was a huge success with craftsmen and amateurs. Our Athenian stands out from the creations of the end of the 18th century, because it materializes a drawing made by the architects Percier and Fontaine who advocated a return to the antique in French art, taken from their "Recueil de Décorations intérieures", plate XXXIII (a tripod that can recall by its shape one of those found in the excavations of Herculaneum), proof of the collaboration of the Jacobs workshop and the Emperor's architects.
An Athenian in cookie from Paris from the Empire period with a similar composition was part of the collection of the fashion designer Christian Dior, it also interprets the design of Percier and Fontaine.
This object perfectly illustrates the decorative schemes that inspired French artists in the early years of the nineteenth century. It shows how an everyday and practical object becomes a pretext for the brilliant representation of the creative talent and virtuosity of the best French craftsmen of the Empire period.
Exceptional planter in the shape of an Athenian designed after a drawing by Percier and Fontaine in mahogany veneer and gilded wood. The three legs are in the form of winged Egyptian busts ending in shanks, all in gilded wood, joined by a triangular spacer veneered in mahogany and decorated in its center with a stylized pine cone in gilded wood. Stamped Jacob D. R. Meslée (period 1803 - 1813).
Height : 112 cm - Diameter : 56 cm
This design in the shape of a tripod derives from a piece of furniture created by Jean-Henri Eberts (1726 - 1803) called Athenian after the painting of Jean-Marie Vien : " la vertueuse athénienne ". The newspaper "l'Avant-Coureur" placed an advertisement on September 27, 1773 and, as soon as it was published, this type of tripod in the antique style was a huge success with craftsmen and amateurs. Our Athenian stands out from the creations of the end of the 18th century, because it materializes a drawing made by the architects Percier and Fontaine who advocated a return to the antique in French art, taken from their "Recueil de Décorations intérieures", plate XXXIII (a tripod that can recall by its shape one of those found in the excavations of Herculaneum), proof of the collaboration of the Jacobs workshop and the Emperor's architects.
An Athenian in cookie from Paris from the Empire period with a similar composition was part of the collection of the fashion designer Christian Dior, it also interprets the design of Percier and Fontaine.
This object perfectly illustrates the decorative schemes that inspired French artists in the early years of the nineteenth century. It shows how an everyday and practical object becomes a pretext for the brilliant representation of the creative talent and virtuosity of the best French craftsmen of the Empire period.