Stamped Gros Paris, Buffet At Support Height In Blackened Rosewood And Gilt Bronze, 19th Century

Superb furniture at support height in blackened rosewood veneer and gilded bronze. This is a Napoleon III sideboard stamped by the marquetry cabinetmaker Jean Louis Benjamin Gros. Half-moon shaped, it opens with a door revealing two shelves. The furniture is veneered with rosewood on oak and blackened. It is decorated with an incredible chiseled and gilded bronze trim of very high quality similar to Linke or Beurdeley in the Louis XVI style. The rounded sides receive figures of Medusa in geometric interlacing and bell-shaped lily of the valley flowers. The front uprights in the form of flat columns receive neoclassical ornaments. The door itself bears a very delicate bronze ornament chiseled with garlands of flowers in very relief, acanthus leaves, medallion with arrows and Louis XVI knot in trimmings, topped with a lyre with roosters. Finally, a white Carrara marble top tops this beautiful piece of furniture. All in very good house condition, only two small gaps in veneer filled in. The wooden tray under the marble is repeatedly stamped “Gros Paris”. We are in the presence of a very elegant sideboard at support height in harmonious proportions and with a very good quality of execution. Napoleon III period around 1850. Delivery by carrier in wooden crate on pallet on the ground floor in front of your home, 280 euros in France, 600 euros in the EU and 1500 euros rest of the world. * Jean-Louis-Benjamin Gros, active in the 1850s and 1860s, is listed in the Almanac as a cabinetmaker specializing in marquetry and mosaic and manufacturer of ornamental bronzes for furniture. He collaborated with Charles Guillaume Winckelsen (active from 1854 to 1871) as a principal cabinetmaker. The latter notably produced extremely precise copies of Boulle furniture for an illustrious clientele including the Radziwills, the Behagues, the Marquis de Lillers and the Laffite family. Jean Gros participated in the Exhibition of Industrial Products in 1849 and the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1855. Renowned for furniture in Boulle marquetry and Louis XVI style, furniture with hard stone inlays is also characteristic of its production. He was one of the suppliers to the Duke of Aumale in Chantilly.