Lot 140
  • 140

Édouard Lièvre

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • pair of vitrine cabinets, circa 1875
  • ebony, ebonised, glass
  • 265 x 156 x 63 cm. (104 ¼ x 61 ½ x 24 ¾ in.)
carved ebonised pearwood, oak

Literature

Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIX Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 437
Camille Mestdagh, L'Ameublement d'art Français 1850-1900, Paris, 2000, pp. 115, 120, 148
Roberto Polo, Édouard Lièvre, un créateur des arts décoratifs au XIX, L’objet d’art no.394, Paris, 2004, illustrated
Christopher Payne, European Furniture of the 19th Century, Woodbridge, 2012, p. 41 for information on Lièvre

Catalogue Note

Although Lièvre is most known for his creations inspired by the exotic, being a gifted draftsman, art critic, historian and aesthete, his work embraced most of the historic revival styles of the late 19th century. One can clearly see this taste for historicism in this pair of rare neo-renaissance cabinets. For further information on Edouard Lièvre please see lot 157 in the present sale.