A gilt-bronze mounted Rio rosewood and tinted maple vitrine bibliothèque, Paris, circa 1880, signed Edouard Lièvre (1828-1886)

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150,000 - 250,000 EUR

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in the shape of a Chinese pagoda, the base opening with a long drawer, the central part with a glazed door enclosing a mirror-backed interior and two shelves, the frontispiece with inverted sides and centred by a ruyi head-shaped finial applied with the Chinese symbol ‘shou’ for longevity set between prunus branches, above a pierced foliage scrolling galerie with stylised lotuses, centered by a mythical lion mask ; signed EL on the reverse of a bronze with several unreadable numbers

Height 102 1/8 in, width 55 1/2 in, depth 21 1/4 in ; Haut. 259,5, larg. 141 cm, prof. 54 cm

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C. Payne, Paris, la quintessence du meuble au XIXe siècle, Saint-Rémy-En-l’Eau, 2018, pp. 430-435.

G. Weisberg, Le Japonisme, Arts asiatiques, vol. 44, 1989. pp. 130-132.

O. Propagare, Edouard Lievre, Créateur de meubles et objets d'art, Galerie Roxane Rodriguez, 2004.

P. Thiébaut, ‘Contribution à une histoire du mobilier japonisant : Les Créations de l´Escalier de Cristal’, Revue de l’art, 1989, No. 85, p. 76-83.

B. Steinitz, O. Hurstel, Edouard Lièvre et son influence sur les Arts Décoratifs du dernier quart du XIXe siècle, cat. Expo, Paris 2014.

Catalogue des meubles d'art en bois sculpté et ornés de bronzes (..) œuvres décoratives d'Edouard Lièvre (..) le tout dépendant de la succession de feu M. Edouard Lièvre, Vente après décès des 21, 22, 23 et 24 mars 1887, Paris, hôtel Drouot.

Edouard Lièvre un créateur des arts décoratifs au XIXe, L’Objet d’Art, n°394, September 2004, pp. 102-113.

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