TABLE-PUPITRE À CRÉMAILLÈRE

from the collections of the "Villa Reale" in Marlia, Italy, the residence of Elisa Baciocchi, sister of Napoleon I, Princess of Lucca and Piombino, and Grand Duchess of Tuscany under the Empire

Paris, Consulate period, circa 1800.
Jacob Frères (1796-1803)

Oak frame; mahogany veneering; bronzed wood; gilt bronze, metal; leather, blue velvet with gold border.

H. 85 cm. (33 ½ in.); W. 204 cm. (80 ½ in.); D. 101 cm. (39 ¾ in.).

PROVENANCE: former collection of Cecil Blumenthal, known as Blunt, and Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt (1885-1971), Count and Countess Pecci-Blunt, at the “Villa Reale” in Marlia (Tuscany).

LITERATURE: Eveline Schlumberger, “Un palais décoré par Elisa Bonaparte”, Connaissance des Arts, August 1957, No. 66, pp. 48-53, ill. p.50.

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