Live Auction 14193Robert de Balkany Rome & the Côte d'Azur
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND TOLE PEINTE-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BEDSIDE TABLE ('SOMNO')
Lot 34

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND TOLE PEINTE-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BEDSIDE TABLE ('SOMNO')

ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB FRERES, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed23 March 2017

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GBP 17,500

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND TOLE PEINTE-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BEDSIDE TABLE ('SOMNO')
ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB FRERES, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The cupboard door and sides centred by blue-painted medallions with classical urns, flanked by torches linked by foliate swags, on square bracket feet
33 ½ in. (85 cm.) high; 20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm.) square

Specialist note

This ‘Somno’, richly mounted with finely chased ormolu mounts and blued tôle medallions, is after a design by the celebrated architects and ornemanistes Charles Percier and Pierre-François Léonard Fontaine. This design was first illustrated in their Recueil de Décorations Intérieures, Paris, 1801-1812, pl. XXIII, with the caption: ‘Table de nuit exécutée à Paris pour Me. M. par les frères Jacob.’
An almost identical ‘Somno’ was delivered by Jacob-Desmalter and Cie for the Palais de Fontainebleau the 14th of November 1804. This piece was inventoried in 1804 in the Emperor’s bedroom, in 1807 in the boudoir turc, in 1810 in the bedroom of the Impératrice, and is still part of the Fontainebleau collection (inv. Num. GME 6879).