EXCEPTIONAL APPARATUS BED, called "HENRI III of... Lot 25

EXCEPTIONAL APPARATUS BED, called "HENRI III of the CASTLE of AMBOISE" In richly carved walnut, rectangular shape, highly architectural. The canopy is supported by four term columns arranged two by two diagonally. The caryatids and atlantes take the form of satyrs and women sculpted from the top of the skull to their pelvis. Their butterfly-winged ears participate in the hybridization of the figures. Their basins are adorned with masks taking a feminine or masculine form, alternating the sex of each term. The base of the sheath-shaped column is sculpted with scrolls and rests on four ball feet. The back of the bed in high relief is decorated with a woman's mask in the centre, accosted with foliage, fruit baskets and grimacing masks. The various uprights are powerfully moulded with straight and upside down palmettes. 19th century, neo-Renaissance period. Height. 275, Length. 258, Width. 199 cm. Dimensions de la couche interne : Long. 237, Larg. 175 cm. Scientific study: the wood sample taken from a caryatid was best dated by the carbon 14 method from 1680 to 1764 for 32%, and nearly 50% for a dating from 1801 to 1894. CIRAM report of 7 February 2020 available on request. Provenance: - according to the historian Émile Molinier, bed purchased from the Guyrod family in Annecy, Savoie? - collection Émile Gavet, the bed not referenced at its sale in the Galerie Petit in 1897, Paris? - according to an eminently respectable family tradition, would come from a sale of the Château d'Amboise, - by descent, private collection, Normandy. Exceptional so called "Henri III ceremonial bed" with caryatids, from the former collection of the castle of Amboise. Work of the 19th century in the taste of the renaissance. Extension on rouillac.com : - essay on "Le lit dit Henri III du château d'Amboise" by Jacques Farran, auctioneer. Bibliography : - Émile MOLINIER, Collection Émile Gavet, catalogue raisonné, preceded by a historical and archaeological study on the works of art that