Live Auction 2590500 Years Decorative Arts Europe
A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU AND MARBLE JARDINIERES
Lot 252

A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU AND MARBLE JARDINIERES

ATTRIBUTED TO HENRI PICARD, PARIS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed18 October 2012

Price Realised

USD 47,500

Considering selling a similar item?

Discover its value with a complimentary estimate from our specialists.

More Information

How to sell

A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU AND MARBLE JARDINIERES
ATTRIBUTED TO HENRI PICARD, PARIS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each with a central bowl surrounded with a scroll-work frieze and terminating in a berried finial, supported by three mask-headed legs running to paw feet, on a beveled campan rubané marble base, the reverse of the bronzes variously numbered
35 in. (89 cm.) high, 17¾ in. (45 cm.) diameter (2)

With Partridge, London, circa 1963.
Sotheby's, London, 17 April 1964, lot 108 (sold as Louis XVI period).

Specialist note

A single jardinière with a further tassel-form stretcher, was sold Christie's, New York, 21-22 October 2010, lot 473 ($56,250). A pair of unattributed atheniennes of similar design was offered M&N Uzal: 19th Century Excellence, Sotheby's, London, 28 October 2009, lot 52.

For a further note on Henri Picard, please see lot 1.