A Beautiful Quality Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Four Sided Parquetry Pedestal By Alfred Beurdeley

A Beautiful Quality Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Four Sided Parquetry Pedestal

By Alfred Beurdeley

A tapered body with fine bronze mounts on all four sides. The top with bronze drapes running from corner mount to corner mount. The center with bronze plaques. Scanted angle bronze designs heading down the sides and ending in hoofed feet. 

Stamped B.Y. on the back of some bronzes.

Beurdeley, Louis-Auguste and Emmanuel-Alfred (1808-1882 and 1847-1919). The firm exhibited and won awards at all of the major international exhibitions during the second half of the nineteenth century. The quality and skill employed in production was of exceptional quality; their ormolu mounts with mercurial gilding and hand chasing were often difficult to distinguish from late eighteenth-century examples, and were considered the finest in Paris. The firm was pioneered by Jean Beurdeley (1772-1853), later managed by his son Louis-Auguste-Alfred, and finally imparted to his son Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis in 1875. The firm was established at 32 and 34, rue Louis-Le-Grand, and also owned the pavillion de Hanovre, where it  was based while Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis added two additional workshops at 20 and 24, rue Dautancourt by 1875. The Beurdeley workshops closed in 1896, although still partially active until 1898 and the stock was sold over a number of auctions conducted by the Galerie Georges Petit of Paris. Two auction catalogues of the collection were published in 1895 and sales were held between March 6-8 and May 27-28.

Among Beurdeley's most prestigious clients were Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie, the duc D'aumale, Richard Wallace, the Duc and Princess d'Hamilton, Tsarine Alexandra Féodorovna, The Rothschild and Vanderbilt dynasties and the Metropolitan Club, New York.
Details:

Height – 48.5 inches / 123cm
Width – 16 inches / 41cm – Top: 13 inches / 33cm
Depth – 16 inches / 41cm – Top: 13 inches / 33cm