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A Fantastic Palatial Late 19th Century White Carrara Marble and Gilt Dore Bronze Fireplace

Item # CC980

A Fantastic Palatial Late 19th Century White Carrara Marble and Gilt Dore Bronze Fireplace                      

 

With decorative cherubs on each side and a beautiful etched scene of a mother with children on the Iron Insert. This fireplace is an exact copy of the original 18th Century model that was made for Louis XVI Library in The Palace of Versailles.  

 

'Versailles' by Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos page 280

 

The library of Louis XVI

This library, planned by the architect Gabriel shortly before the death of Louis XV in 1774, was one of the favourite rooms of Louis XVI who indulged in his passion for the sciences and in particular geography. You can see the terrestrial globe born by an Atlas, on which he followed the course of the great maritime explorations, and in particular that of La Pérouse whom he inspired and supported, and the great table by Riesener, whose plateau is made of one single piece of mahogany of 2.10 metres in diameter, mounted on jacks as Louis XVI needed a perfectly flat surface to draw his corrections of the maps.
Details:

Height – 43 inches / 109cm
Width – 76 inches / 193cm
Depth – 18 inches / 46cm
Height – 34.75 inches / 88cm
Width – 53 inches / 135cm

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