From a South of France private collection
A Directoire gilt-bronze and gilt-brass mounted mahogany and sycamore veneered polygonal jardinière, by Martin-Guillaume Biennais, Paris, 1795-1799
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September 23, 12:44 PM GMT
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15,000 - 25,000 EUR
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Description
with lion's head handles, with a diamond-shaped decoration polygonal base frieze, resting on paw feet, with a gilt-metal liner, signed "Biennais Md Tabletier Ebeniste au Singe Violet Rue honoré. N° 511 à Paris"
Haut. 45 cm, diam. 31 cm ; Height. 17 3/5 in, diam. 12 1/5 in
Late Castille collection, Versailles, 13 March 1991, lot 216;
Sotheby’s, Paris, 16 December 2004, lot 223
A very similar example, also signed by Biennais, is held in the Louvre Museum (OA 11770) and is illustrated in A. Dion-Tenenbaum, L'Orfèvre de Napoléon, Martin-Guillaume Biennais, cat. exh., Paris, 2003 p. 18.
Both jardinières, identically signed (without the 'Saint' prefix in the street name), can be dated to around 1795–1800.
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