Napoléon: Une collection historique

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 52. Initial project for the decoration of the central part of the porcelain tray of the table of the Great Captains of Antiquity commissioned by Napoleon I from the Sèvres manufactory, by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart père, 1809.

Initial project for the decoration of the central part of the porcelain tray of the table of the Great Captains of Antiquity commissioned by Napoleon I from the Sèvres manufactory, by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart père, 1809

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

pen, ink, watercolour, signed and dated L.S 1809; (in a later frame)

centred on an antique cameo of the profile of Alexander the Great, within a wide gold border composed of military trophies and laurel filets, stripes made up of hearts and pearls

Diam. 44 cm ; Diam. 17 3/8 in (without frame)

Private collection;

Purchased from Eric Coatelem Gallery, 2009.

Related literature

G. De Bellaigue, ‘A Royal Keepsake: The Table of the Grand Commanders’, in Furniture History, vol. XXXV (1999), pp. 112-141.

S. Grandjean, ‘Napoleonic Tables from Sèvres’, in The Conoisseur, vol. CXLIII, n°577, April 1959, p. 147-153.

S. Lanne, ‘La table des Grands Capitaines’, in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1934, 2nd semester, pp. 283-285.

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