Louis XVI-style BILLET DOUX from the Napoleon III period, - Lot 258

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Louis XVI-style BILLET DOUX from the Napoleon III period, - Lot 258
Louis XVI-style BILLET DOUX from the Napoleon III period, made of mahogany, mahogany veneer and brass ornamentation, opening to a drop-down panel inlaid with four fleurs-de-lis at the corners, revealing two compartments and two drawers, including a belt drawer, with a marble top featuring a gallery Fluted column-style legs with a dark, gray-veined white marble crossbar Rear legs topped with a gilded bronze acanthus plume Fixed back panel (incomplete trim) Spindle legs 106 x 56.5 x 29 cm 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 French naval engineer (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.
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