191 - PAIR OF Empire-period vases with beveled sides, made of painted sheet metal and decorated in gold with cupids, quivers and arrows, oak branches, and acanthus leaves on a red background

PAIR OF Empire-period vases with beveled sides, made of painted sheet metal and decorated in gold with cupids, quivers and arrows, oak branches, and acanthus leaves on a red background Four claw feet on a square base lacquered to resemble faux marble H. 27.5 cm (signs of wear and missing pieces) Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var region, then passed down through the family Biography | Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885). He built the first steamship, the *Napoléon* (1850), and the first armored frigate, the *Gloire* (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.