CHIMNEY in Burgundy stone. Legs adorned with... - Lot 218 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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CHIMNEY in Burgundy stone. Legs adorned with... - Lot 218 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
CHIMNEY in Burgundy stone. Legs adorned with bearded male terms, arms crossed, wrapped in a coat, female mascaron and drapery at the bottom, shell on the base; corbels with large acanthus leaves and two juxtaposed shells; monolithic moulded lintel decorated with a rich frieze of foliage foliage foliage with fleurons and acanthus leaves, cut leather cartouches, the middle one bearing a monogram (S and two O linked and crossed out with an I), egg frieze; cornice with palmette and rais-de-coeur friezes. Burgundy, late 16th century (small restorations, especially on the nose of caryatids). H_240 cm L_278 cm D_81 cm The pedestals of this mantel with its bearded man's caryatids testify to the fashion of the terms that invade the architecture and interior decoration of homes as well as the decorative arts of the second Renaissance. French architects then proposed many models in their collections of engravings intended for sculptors and carpenters. The works of Jean Goujon, Androuet du Cerceau and Hugues Sambin, widely distributed, have inspired many artists. Here, the source of inspiration seems to be rather an engraving by Giulio Bonasone, an Italian working in the Marcantonio Raimondi movement, taken from a series of six plates of "Persians", one of which bears the date 1548 (fig. a). This print was indeed to circulate in the workshops as shown by the Atlantean on the right of the portal of the collegiate church of Notre-Dame du Grand-Andely (Eure) for which it obviously served as a model (fig. b). The characters draped in these jambs, who can, because of their attitude, personify Winter because of their destination, are also reminiscent of certain terms used by Hugues Sambin (around 1520-1601), a great creator from Dijon, who was at the same time a draftsman, engraver and architect and carpenter. We know that he provided the model for a chimney from the house of the goldsmith Jean Robelot (1588). On this occasion, he was "expressly named in a
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