Description
Gabriel VIARDOT (1830-1904) Bedroom consisting of a bed and two bedside tables. Stained and carved mahogany veneered bed topped by a canopy with openwork decoration of apple blossom branches and Sino-Japanese motifs. Headboards inlaid with mother-of-pearl elements and semi-reliefs of cartouches adorned with birds for the headboard and a dragon for the end of the bed. Corner base with four small scrolled feet (small missing parts and accidents). Castors added later? Stamped on the right-hand side of the headboard. Length 160 cm - Depth 200 cm Bibliography: Céline Béral Jérémie Cerman (sous la direction de), Gabriel Frédéric Viardot - Tomes I II, mémoire de master 1 recherches : histoire de l'art, Sorbonne Université, Paris, 2019, drawing presenting a variant of our model reproduced in the Annexes (Tome II) under n°21. Expert: Cabinet Marcilhac
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Gabriel VIARDOT (1830-1904) Bedroom consisting of a bed and two bedside tables. Stained and carved mahogany veneered bed topped by a canopy with openwork decoration of apple blossom branches and Sino-Japanese motifs. Headboards inlaid with mother-of-pearl elements and semi-reliefs of cartouches adorned with birds for the headboard and a dragon for the end of the bed. Corner base with four small scrolled feet (small missing parts and accidents). Castors added later? Stamped on the right-hand side of the headboard. Length 160 cm - Depth 200 cm Bibliography: Céline Béral Jérémie Cerman (sous la direction de), Gabriel Frédéric Viardot - Tomes I II, mémoire de master 1 recherches : histoire de l'art, Sorbonne Université, Paris, 2019, drawing presenting a variant of our model reproduced in the Annexes (Tome II) under n°21. Expert: Cabinet Marcilhac
