A pair of French gilt-bronze mounted ebonised pearwood bibliothèques, circa 1853-1861, signed Jeanselme
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
opening to four glazed doors enclosing three shelves, highlighted with brass stringing and gilt-bronze ornaments, raised on a stepped plinth, stencilled Jeanselme Père et Fils to the reverse
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Height 155 cm, width 275 cm, depth 55 cm; Height 61 in., width 108 1/4 in., depth 21 2/3 in.
La Mésangère - Albert Vandervelden, Liège, Belgium, 2009
RELATED LITERATURE :
D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier français du XIXe siècle : 1795-1889, dictionnaire des ébénistes et des menuisiers, Paris, 1989, p. 374-384
Founded in Paris in 1824 by Joseph-Pierre-François Jeanselme and his brother Jean-Arnoux under the name "Jeanselme frères", the Jeanselme firm remained one of the most highly regarded cabinetmaking workshops in the capital until its closure in 1930.
In 1840, Joseph-Pierre-François Jeanselme continued the business under his own name, at 7 bis rue de Harlay. The firm enjoyed its most prestigious period in 1847, with the acquisition of the Jacob-Desmalter workshop, before Joseph-Pierre-François went into partnership with his son Charles-Joseph-Marie in 1853 under the name "Jeanselme Père et Fils", the mark found on the reverse of our bookcases.
The Jeanselme firm went on to receive numerous commissions to furnish royal and imperial residences, establishing itself as one of the principal suppliers to the Garde-Meuble under the reigns of Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III. The Mobilier national holds a closely related bookcase, also fitted with four doors (inv. GME 6053), recorded in 1856 in the study of Prince Napoléon's private apartments on the first floor of the Palais-Royal.
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