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An EMPirE GilT AnD PATinATED BrOnzE ATHéNIENNE -
circA 1805-1810
Height: 89.5 cm. (35 ¼ in.) Diameter: 39 cm. (15 ¼ in.)
Athéniennes were multi-purpose pieces inspired by Antique roman examples which could be used as
either perfume burners or jardinières and even as wash-stands with the addition of an ewer and basin. A
nearly identical one appears in Jacques-louis David’s seminal 1788 neo-classical painting Paris and Helen
(Musée du louvre, Paris).
A full-scale drawing after charles Percier was used as the design for the closely related model delivered by
Martin-Guillaume Biennais for napoleon’s bedroom in the Tuileries (see Anne-Dion Tenenbaum, l’Orfèvre
de Napoléon: Martin-Guillaume Biennais, Paris, 2003, pp. 19-22).
Other similar versions are part of the Donation lapeyre to the Fondation napoléon (illustrated in the
catalogue Trésors de la Fondation Napoléon, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2004, p. 42) and formerly in
the collection of luigi Anton laura, sold Sotheby’s Paris, 27 June 2001, lot 99.
An EMPirE GilT, PATinATED, SilVErED BrOnzE
AnD SilVEr VESSEl-FOrM inKSTAnD, circA 1810
Height: 19.5 cm. (7 ¾ in.) Width: 36 cm. (14 ¼ in.) Depth: 12.5 cm. (5 in.)
Photography © Guillaume Benoit, roland Dreyfus, Florent Dumas et Michel Gurfinkel
Designed by Steve Hayes
Printed by lamport Gilbert
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circA 1805-1810
Height: 89.5 cm. (35 ¼ in.) Diameter: 39 cm. (15 ¼ in.)
Athéniennes were multi-purpose pieces inspired by Antique roman examples which could be used as
either perfume burners or jardinières and even as wash-stands with the addition of an ewer and basin. A
nearly identical one appears in Jacques-louis David’s seminal 1788 neo-classical painting Paris and Helen
(Musée du louvre, Paris).
A full-scale drawing after charles Percier was used as the design for the closely related model delivered by
Martin-Guillaume Biennais for napoleon’s bedroom in the Tuileries (see Anne-Dion Tenenbaum, l’Orfèvre
de Napoléon: Martin-Guillaume Biennais, Paris, 2003, pp. 19-22).
Other similar versions are part of the Donation lapeyre to the Fondation napoléon (illustrated in the
catalogue Trésors de la Fondation Napoléon, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2004, p. 42) and formerly in
the collection of luigi Anton laura, sold Sotheby’s Paris, 27 June 2001, lot 99.
An EMPirE GilT, PATinATED, SilVErED BrOnzE
AnD SilVEr VESSEl-FOrM inKSTAnD, circA 1810
Height: 19.5 cm. (7 ¾ in.) Width: 36 cm. (14 ¼ in.) Depth: 12.5 cm. (5 in.)
Photography © Guillaume Benoit, roland Dreyfus, Florent Dumas et Michel Gurfinkel
Designed by Steve Hayes
Printed by lamport Gilbert
48
