A painted tôle tray, Restauration, circa 1825

of oval form with a central reserve depicting the Palais Bourbon (Assemblée Nationale) in Paris viewed from the Pont de la Concorde, surrounded by a scroll border of acanthus, rosettes and baskets of flowers incorporating reserves of military trophies, musical instruments and gardening implements painted in gold and polychrome on a burgundy ground 

This tray is in overall good condition, with some minor losses to painted surface and gilding which is worn to the edge. The central panel with marks and scratches consistent with age and use; one repaint repair to the centre of the building and to the left-hand side of the panel. The black painted reverse with marks and scratches consistent with age and use.
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The Palais Bourbon and the adjacent Hôtel de Lassay to the right were constructed on the Rive Gauche of the Seine between 1722 and 1728 for Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, legitimised daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan and wife of the 6^th Prince de Condé, a cousin to the King. The Palais was modified on several occasions throughout the 18^th century, the edifice was confiscated from the 8^th Prince de Condé by the Revolutionary governement in 1791 and became the seat of the legislative assembly of the Directory in 1795, later transformed into the Chambre des Députés during the Restoration and the Assemblée Nationale under the Third Republic.

Based on contemporary engravings, the south-westerly-facing view is taken from the Pont de la Concorde, and the distorted perspective makes Mansart’s late 17th century dome of the Invalides appear to the left (east) of the Palais Bourbon, when in fact it lies slightly west.